Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something might be and give a key to the reading of Stein s various works. It is divided into two parts reflecting Stein s development. The first part, -Phenomenology-, deals with those features of Stein s work that set it apart from that of other phenomenologists, notably Husserl. The second part is entitled -Metaphysics-, although...