ABSTRACT
Phenomenology was one of the strongest philosophical currents in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Its leading figures included Edmund Husserl (1859–1939), Max Scheler (1874–1928), and Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). Edith Stein (1891–1942) 1 was one of the many young students who were fascinated by Husserl’s philosophy and his slogan “To the thing itself!,” and who went to Göttingen to study under the Master (as Husserl’s students liked to call him).
