Being Unfolded – Edith Stein on the Meaning of Being Gricoski Desmond Hardback

Being UnfoldedEdith Stein on the Meaning of Being\nAuthor(s): Thomas Gricoski, William Desmond\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press, United States\nImprint: The Catholic University of America Press\nISBN-13: 9780813232584, 978-0813232584\nSynopsis\nBeing Unfolded responds to the question, What is the meaning of being for Edith Stein. In Finite and Eternal Being Stein tentatively concludes that being is the unfolding of meaning. Neither Stein nor her commentators have elaborated much on this suggestive phrase. Thomas Gricoski argues that Steins mature metaphysical project can be developed into an ontology of unfolding. The differentiating factor of this ontology is its resistance to both existentialism and essentialism. The ontology of unfolding is irreducibly relational.\n\nBeing Unfolded proceeds by testing a relational hypothesis against Steins theory of the modes of being (actual, essential, and mental being). From the phenomenological perspective.