This book, on the mood of the fifth, is intended for adults who have become aware of the damage done to children by an occasionally overwhelming technological and dehumanized environment and who are searching for ways to heal this damage. The novel approach outlined by musicologist Julius Knierim in this book is based on subtle observations of ......
Notes from 16 lectures, Munich and Oslo, Apr. 22, 1907-May 21, 1909(CW 104a); 1 lecture in Paris, June 14, 1906 (CW 94) We can be overwhelmed by the fearsome pictures of our current world situation, which reflect powerful spiritual events taking place today. This book is based on notes written down at 16 lectures given in 1907 and 1909, ......
Recognizing Reality is a clarion call for broader perspectives in a time of global crisis, for a differentiated understanding of current events, especially Covid, and for a deepening of dialogue, in Martin Buber’s sense of the word.
A wide-rangng and always thoughtful treatise on the most absorbing of human attributes. Contents include: Interviews with Rene Querido; Love among the Greeks; Dante: From Earthly to Eternal Love; Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Love; Goethe: The Search for the Eternal Feminine; Novalis: Finding the Beloved beyond Death; Vladimir Soloviev in Search ......
Science, Philosophy, Education, Social Science, Theology, Theory of Language (Cw 81)
10 lectures, Berlin, March 6-11, 1922; A report on the College Course, Dornach, March 18, 1922 (CW 81) "Each day Dr. Steiner opened the session dedicated to a particular branch of science with an introductory lecture.... These were amazing sketches--with an illuminating clarity and a sure brush stroke. Dr. Steiner painted a picture of each ......
Two Plays: Imagining Heschel and Spinoza's Solitude
Praise for Colin Greer: "Greer not only portrays the gaps in understanding that needed to be closed between Catholics and Jews, but also surmises on how there are limits for each of us in how far we can step outside of ourselves to make change." --Edward K. Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Brandies University; ......
"To be wise is one thing: to know the thought that directs all things through all things." "We should not act like the children of our parents." "I searched my nature." - from the Fragments of Heraclitus This bright, deep, meditative jewel-like study brings Heraclitus to life in a new way, and shows him to be one of the principal sources of ......
Both because it is the gift of the Russian people to be able to describe another's soul-configuration in a particularly pictorial and concrete way, and because each of these writers knew Rudolf Steiner and saw him frequently, their impressions are especially living and vivid. In these eminently readable reminiscences, Andrei Belyi, the ......