Frederick Amrine

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 four text are radical, profound -- and remarkably similar.

The Perennial Alternative is the ripe fruit of a long, lively, in-depth exploration of Goethe's scientific work. Anyone who has begun to realize the significance of Goethe's scientific approach for us today will find this collection of brilliant essays richly rewarding. Frederick Amrine brings us up to date on the current reception of Goethe's scientific work and how it relates to the new paradigm of emergence and to such contemporary thinkers as Thomas Nagel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, and Thomas Kuhn. In a fascinating essay on the importance of Goethe's Italian Journey for the development of his organic thinking, the author digs deep into his intimate knowledge of Goethe's biography, shedding new light on Goethe's relationship with Spinoza's philosophy and with Newton's optics. In "The Metamorphosis of the Scientist," he articulates a central aspect of Goethean science--namely, that scientists, like all of organic nature, evolve. Their understanding of the world evolves with them in the sense that, as Goethe put it, "Every new object, well-observed and contemplated, opens up a new organ of perception in us." This volume also includes insightful essays on the work of contemporary Goethean scientists Jochen Bockem hl, Michael Wilson, and Wolfgang Schad, as well as an excellent introduction to Schad's lifework, Threefoldness in Humans and Mammals.

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 Bildungsroman, Frederick Amrine offers a unique reading of Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre and Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, which posits the second novel as a sequel to the first. Deconstructing and jettisoning the notion of the Bildungsroman, the features of the novels which have historically proved problematic for critics, seeming to testify to the novels' disunity, become instead the articulation points of a subtle concord between thematic and formal elements. Reading the novels in light of the eminent criticism of Northrop Frye, this book productively shifts away from social commentary towards the archetypal and symbolic, showing Goethe not to be an exception within world literature; rather, that he participates deeply in its overarching structures.

These 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 the electronic version), and notes, neither of which are contained in the RSP's version. In this important cycle of lectures, Steiner refers astronomy at every point to the human constitution. The result is an especially challenge, with rewards to match.

Rudolf Steiner era un grande genio, che rimane in gran parte da scoprire. Ecco un'introduzione alla sua vita e al suo lavoro.

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, and even more esoteric. Given the obvious centrality of such a work to anthroposophy, is it astonishing that the cycle has remained out of print for a very long time. The present volume is part of a multi-pronged attempt to make it accessible again. It contains suggested emendations of the two versions available, plus notes, which are not included with the extant translation at all. It was also possible to reproduce for the first time the color plates, which are not available even in the German original.

Dans un monde o tant d'id ologies - marxisme, nationalisme, mat rialisme, fondamentalisme religieux, pouvoir invisible du march - sont devenues lim es, moins que directement destructrices, beaucoup ont faim pour une radicale nouvelle fa on de penser, pour des id es qui naissent qui naissent de vues nouvelles, des id es qui ont un r el pouvoir de transformation. Ils aspirent des id es qui peuvent devenir r alit , des id aux vivants. Steiner nous a donn en abondance, lan ant et inspirant bon nombre d'initiatives travers le monde.

This is a collection of essays that all have in common that they represent thresholds - sites where can begin the arduous path of self-transformation. It is secondarily a philosophical book. All the essays are informed to a lesser or greater degree by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophy. For those who don't know anthroposophy, it provides an excellent introduction in the essay "Discovering a Genius," Also included are essays of the aesthetics of music, figurative language in the Bible, Gilles Deleuze, Joseph Beuys & more.