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John Fletcher : Art Inspired by Rudolf Steiner: An Illustrated Introduction

Mercury Arts Publications, 1987

ISBN 9780854405367

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T5 - A hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wronling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, less than an inch tear on the bottom left corner of the spine, wrinkled on the upper part and some sides and corners, scattered rubbing, light scratches and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed and cocked, some bumped corners, less half-inch tear with wrinkling on the bottom of page 199, light tanning and shelf wear. 12"x8.75", 231 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Rudolf Steiner (Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism (for heresiologists it is little doubt that these are neognosticism). Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine. Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view (who, in turn, was influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg), in which "thinking. . . is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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