Lexington Books
Pages: 238
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-4000-0 • Hardback • October 2021 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-7936-4002-4 • Paperback • April 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-7936-4001-7 • eBook • October 2021 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Michele Kueter Petersen is visiting assistant professor of philosophy and theology at St. Ambrose University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Poetic Presence
Chapter 1: Fallible Human
Chapter 2: Fallibility Gives Rise to Hermeneutics
Chapter 3: Capable Human and the Role of Silence in the Creation of Meaning
Chapter 4: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Historical Phenomenon
Chapter 5: Edith Stein and the Carmelite Tradition: Blazing a Prophetic Path in the Light of Love
Chapter 6: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Transformative Spiritual and Ethical Activity
Chapter 7: The Meaning of Capable Human
Chapter 8: A Song of Hermeneutical Existence
Postlude: Towards a Third Naiveté
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
“In an age marked by increasing hostility to 'the other,' Prof. Michele Kueter Petersen offers a timely and engaging thought experiment concerning the importance of 'contemplative silence' in terms of thinking reflectively about being while also thinking creatively about one’s self and one’s relationship to others and to the larger world. Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein, two brilliant phenomenologists of the twentieth century whose lives were indelibly marked by the suffering of two world wars, help Prof. Petersen guide the reader through an analysis of various contemporary philosophical issues impacted by dialectic and hermeneutics, empathy and difference, institutional conflicts and personal–social transformation.”
— Michael F. Andrews, Loyola University Chicago
Stein’s profound intellectual and spiritual integrity are gifts shaped by her Jewish heritage, her contemplative heart, her dynamic intellect, her newfound Christian faith lived as Carmelite nun known as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Finally, this Carmelite martyred at Auschwitz was shaped by her understanding and practice of contemplative silence.
— Keith J. Egan, Adjunct Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame