Being Unfolded

" Being Unfolded is the work that needed to be written in order to make progress in Stein studies, particularly of her metaphysical writings. This will be a 'must-read' for Stein scholars worldwide."

~Sarah Borden Sharkey, Wheaton College

" Being Unfolded fills an important lacuna in Edith Stein scholarship, namely, an interpretive model of the meaning of being that presents unfolding as "an irreducible relationality at the heart of everything." Gricoski’s work places Edith Stein within a larger context of important topics in early twentieth-century philosophy while also inviting the reader to explore implications of Stein’s later scholarship in dialogue with contemporary trends in phenomenology, metaphysics, and Catholic theology."

~Michael F. Andrews, Loyola University Chicago

"Thomas Gricoski’s impressive study of Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being provides a rich interpretative key for understanding the philosopher’s complex account of being. The concept of unfolding is deployed to establish the possibility of a profoundly relational ontology that can account for both singularity and multiplicity of being while showing how finite and infinite, eternal being come to coincide with one another. Gricoski offers a unique framework for grasping how Stein’s relational ontology unfolds. Gricoski expertly mines Stein’s late metaphysics to show how a logic of unfolding avoids the traditional philosophical binaries of realism versus idealism, immanence versus transcendence, temporal versus eternal, and the finite versus the infinite. This masterly study will guide readers through one of Stein’s most complex works of philosophy. Readers will be impressed by Gricoski’s rigor and acuity."

~Antonio Calcagno, King's University College at Western University

"In a study that all future research on the topic will have to take into account, Thomas Gricoski clarifies Edith Stein’s metaphysics as a relational ontology by explaining how she applies the correlational principle of being--unfolding--meaning to the vexed problems surrounding the intentionality of consciousness and the constitution of being in her attempt to formulate a tenable synthesis of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Aquinas’s Christian philosophy."

~George Heffernan, Merrimack College