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Goethe's Willhelm Meister novels, widely held to be the most significant and influential in all of German literature, have traditionally been classed as Bildungsroman, or 'novels of formation'. In Goethe and the Myth of... See More
Biography & True Accounts
All new ideas begin outside the mainstream and gradually move in. This introduction to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy seeks to show that many of his ideas have already entered the mainstream, or are on the cusp of doing so. See More
Education & Reference"What do we have to do so that education can have a heart again?" This is the question that recurs throughout Steiner's lecture cycle of 1923. Above all, we need to learn to see all of human life as an interconnected whole... See More
Supplementary materials to the extant translation of GA 232: Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2012) which include colored plates, much expanded notes, and several important texts from the German... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This study begins by recapitulating briefly Rudolf Steiner's ideas about reincarnation and karma. The heart of the argument is a comparison of Steiner's views with those of John Rawls and Peter Singer, perhaps the two... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A study of chapter III of Difference & Repetition, "The Image of Thought," and Steiner's later philosophy, focusing on two lectures he gave in Bologna in 1911, and on the last chapter of The Riddles of Philosophy (1914). All... See More
Religion & Spirituality
Rudolf Steiner devotes parts of various lectures to what he calls "the principle of spiritual economy." This is a very exceptional chapter of the story of reincarnation and karma. The etheric and astral bodies that have been... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A meditation on music as a non-sensory experience. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rudolf Steiner are shown to be the great pioneers of what today is called "emergence." Parallels with the great Danish semiotician Jesper Hoffmeyer are especially striking. We see all three... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
These pieces were first published in Steiner's magazine Lucifer-Gnosis in December 1903. They are little gems that are buried in that untranslated volume. Only in his Karma lectures of 1924 does Steiner surpass the clarity... See More
History
This booklet offers excerpts from three lectures by Rudolf Steiner on ancient Greek consciousness. The lectures are disparate: they date from 1911, 1921 and 1922, and they are all different in style. But they are unified by... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This is one of the most beautiful and moving single lectures that Rudolf Steiner ever gave. He places love into a cosmic context. Only love is truly divine. It is the creative force in the world. Only love is integral and... See More
Classics
Rudolf Steiner's three essays, two on Goethe's Faust and one on his enigmatic Fairy Tale, provide an excellent introduction to the esoteric side of Goethe. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Three Steps of Anthroposophy: Philosophy, Cosmology, and Religion is an unusually concise and elegant formulation of many of the main tenets of anthroposophy. It is unusual in that what first began as lectures were then... See More
Science & MathsThese supplemental materials to GA 201; Mystery of the Universe: The Human Being, Model of Creation offer substantive emendations to the extant translation. They also supply color plates (produced in color however only in... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Anthroposophy: An Introduction is one of Steiner's most important lecture cycles. In it, Steiner begins anew in light of the Christmas Conference, presenting anthroposophy in a language and approach that is fresh, concrete... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This is one of Steiner's very most important books. Written on what would turn out to be his deathbed, it contains summaries of all of anthroposophy in the lapidary form of epigrams. This is the first of seven volumes... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Immediately after the Christmas Conference, Rudolf Steiner set about to renew and deepen anthroposophy, which had been the ultimate goal of that Conference. Beginning already in January, he gave a series of nine lectures... See More
Politics & Social SciencesRudolf Steiner's brilliant idea of the evolution of consciousness is illustrated with some particularly vivid examples. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This is a collection of my anthroposophical studies, most of which have been available heretofore only separately. It is a wide-ranging collection, with something for beginners (notably "Discovering a Genius") but also food... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
An imaginary conversation between Gilles Deleuze and Rudolf Steiner, revealing uncanny parallels. See More
About the role of beauty, sublimity, and elegance in science. Anthroposophy is truly a spiritual science because... read and discover one answer! See More
The seminal import of figurative language in the Bible generally, and the parables in particular. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A very short, but very dense, manifesto making the case for Beuysian ideas. See More
Self-Help & Counselling
This book is the first place Steiner mentions the threefold mapping of human thinking, feeling, and willing onto the nervous and sensory system, the rhythmic system, and the metabolic/limb system. This tripartition then... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This lecture is a beautiful account of the real genesis of the rainbow. But it is so much more as well. It is a brief account of all of cosmic evolution, and it even contains a startling revelation about life itself. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
First, a study of Ch.III of Difference and Repetition, "The Image of Thought," and Steiner's later philosophy, focusing on two lectures given in Bologna in 1911, and on the last chapter of The Riddles of Philosophy (1914)... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
An introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, a largely undiscovered genius whose work deserves to be far better known. No acquaintance is presupposed, but experienced anthroposophists also stand to gain by reading... See More
An interpretation of Goethe's Faust using Freudian dream-work and topological transformations. See More
Biography & True Accounts
An introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, an extraordinary genius who has been surprisingly neglected. Steiner was a pioneer in esoteric studies, the arts, education, farming, social finance, and much more. See More