This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966). She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), and was known as the "first lady of German philosophy".

Ronny Miron is a Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research focuses on post-Kantian Idealism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics, as well as current Jewish thought. She employs an interdisciplinary perspective combining the aforementioned traditions. She is the author of Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being (2012), The Desire for Metaphysics: Selected Papers on Karl Jaspers (2014), The Angel of Jewish History: The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century (2014). Her latest publications deal with early phenomenology, in particular, that of Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein, and discuss its relation to the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Her edited books, are: Husserl and Other Phenomenologists, appeared in 2018, published by Routledge; Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein - Philosophical Encounters and Divides, Edited Volume with Antonio Calcagno, published by Springer, Forthcoming.