TY - THES ID - 134487234 TI - Identity Is Said in Many Ways: A Foray into a Phenomenological Account of Identity According to Edith Stein AU - Wenderski, Joe AU - Jansen, Julia AU - KU Leuven. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte. Opleiding Master of Philosophy (Leuven) PY - 2023 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134487234 AB - The topic of identity permeates many contemporary socio-political theories. Thinkers such as John Rawls, Judith Butler, and Kimberlé Crenshaw all in one way or other touch on identity and so make anthropological implications. Although their accounts manage to highlight some aspects of how the identity is formed and what role it has with respect to the community, I argue that most of these accounts miss the ‘who’ that seems to be at the heart of the sense of ‘identity.’ In this thesis, I follow an ongoing trend and argue that studying identity through the lens of phenomenology. I think this is important for asking both about who I am and about the ‘identity’ of ‘identity politics.’ This aims to contribute to socio-political philosophy. Not only does drawing on phenomenology help to examine important aspects of philosophical anthropology and thereby offer a backdrop for political philosophy, it also brings more topics under its aim of unifying the sciences and provides further insights for the ongoing discussion on identity. For this purpose, I examine the philosophical works of Edith Stein, whose writings about individuality and uniting the sciences pertain in significant ways to thematizing identity. She offers us ways to rethink how identity is both one and many: it has many senses with a seemingly united core. Her philosophy of the human person, given through her analysis of the community as such and its relation to persons, offers much by way of thinking through these issues. In presenting her work, I wonder whether we can begin to envision a way of conceiving identity that ties together its many senses, that does justice to the individuality of the human person, and that even helps us answer the question ‘who am I?’ ER -