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‘Edith Stein (1891-1942): Enquête sur la Source' is both a spiritual biography of Edith Stein and a synthetic presentation of her thinking. Many previously unpublished testimonies and excerpts from her writing, available for the first time in French, reveal the personality of Edith Stein and her life's path: roots in a Jewish family great friendships discovery of philosophy as the mission of her whole life gradual awakening to an inner life baptism in the Catholic Church in 1922 engagement in political, feminist and educational reform the struggle against anti-Semitism and the totalitarian movement in the Germany of her times her entry into the Carmelite order to accomplish what she had been striving for since her baptism - to stand in front of God in the name of all of us. Through her life and work, Edith Stein shared with us what she had grasped about the laws of personal development in all dimensions: to be true to oneself, to become authentically human. That was the project she set herself as a student, and fulfilled to the point of self-sacrifice.