This book presents a collection of articles most of which stem from papers given at the conference Stein’s and Husserl’s Intertwined Itineraries 1916-25 with Focus on Ideas II, hosted online, during COVID at the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, University of Paderborn, 20-21 May 2021. The aim of the conference was to contribute towards clarifying the respective positions of Stein and Husserl concerning the relationship between person and intersubjectivity, with an emphasis on identifying the extent to which their respective positions inform Ideas II. This is discussed under four headings: 1. the text of Ideas II and the collaboration between Stein and Husserl; 2. intersubjectivity and social ontology; 3. the distinction between the adjacent positions of Husserl and Stein; and 4. the possibility of combining transcendental intersubjectivity with philosophical anthropology.

Mette Lebech is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Maynooth University, Ireland, since 1998. She holds degrees from the universities of Copenhagen, Louvain-la-Neuve and Leuven and has published widely on human dignity and the philosophy of Edith Stein. Her publications include On the Problem of Human Dignity. A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation (Königshausen und Neumann, 2009); The Philosophy of Edith Stein. From Phenomenology to Metaphysics (Peter Lang, 2015); European Sources of Human Dignity. A Commented Anthology of Texts on Human Dignity (Peter Lang, 2019) and Value Phenomenology. Taking Account of Edith Stein’s Contributions (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). She is founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES) and Series Editor of Edith Stein Studies, Bloomsbury. She is a Fellow at the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at the University of Paderborn.