Essere donna: note sul pensiero pedagogico di Edith Stein e sulla sua amicizia con Hedwig Conrad-Martius

At the beginning of the phenomenological movement, in the so-called "Circle of Monaco and Göttingen", the women students of Husserl played a not marginal role. They have led to the intention of going "to the things themselves" a specific light: the specificity of a feminine phenomenology can be traced in the eidetic interest, i.e. not naturalistic or empirical, for the theme of the structure of the human soul. In this context, the objective of these pages is to focus in particular on one aspect of Edith Stein's strictly pedagogical reflection on the structure of the person: the question about "own nature" and the "vocation" of women. It is considered in the light of her close friendship with Hedwig Conrad-Martius