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by Irene Chikiar Bauer (Author)
Vida, obra (y muerte) de una mujer extraordinaria. Un retrato del siglo XX que interpela los debates sobre identidad del XXI.
Edith Stein recorrió un sinuoso camino de búsqueda que la llevó del judaísmo al agnosticismo, a la filosofía, al catolicismo y que concluyó en el infierno de los campos de concentración nazis.
Edith Stein's complicated personal journey took her from Judaism to agnosticism, philosophy and Catholicism, and ended in a Nazi concentration camp. Born in Poland in 1891, Edith Stein was the first German woman to earn a doctorate in philosophy; a close confidante of Edmund Husserl, the father of Phenomenology; and an early feminist. In 1921, she became interested in mysticism and converted to Catholicism, joining the Carmelite Order as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Unable to emigrate before the Second World War broke out, she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chamber. In 1998, she was canonized by Pope John Paul II. In this carefully researched book, Irene Chikiar Bauer delves into Stein's autobiographical writings, philosophical and religious texts, and extensive correspondence to shed light on her circumstances and the existential questions that consumed her. The result is a biography that connects Stein's life and work with the tumultuous era in which she lived and the causes she embraced with fervor and conviction. The issues it examines resonate with the present and current debates about identity.
Author Biography
Irene Chikiar Bauer es periodista y escritora. Máster en Sociología de la Cultura y Análisis Cultural por la Universidad de San Martín, en Buenos Aires -de la que es docente-, ha publicado ensayos literarios sobre san Juan de la Cruz (Ejercicio de amar, 1993), Julio Cortázar (A propósito de Rayuela, 1994), Felisberto Hernández (Aproximaciones a un autor, 1995) y Juan L. Ortiz (Un pensamiento realizado de la luz, 1996). Edita la sección bibliográfica de la revista argentina El Arca, en la que colabora regularmente con artículos y entrevistas a personalidades de la cultura, y ha trabajado en radio y televisión, y como columnista en diversos medios gráficos. Se ha especializado en divulgar la temática de género mediante la promoción de las obras de escritoras y artistas mujeres. En San Antonio de Areco (Buenos Aires) dirige el grupo cultural La Commedia junto con Horacio Bauer, con quien ha fundado la FM 94.1 Clásica Areco.
