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Rudolf Steiner Edition 3 Revised
Life, Inner Path & Work
Paperback
February 2025
9781912480944
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Hawthorn Press - ISBN 9781912480944
- Language English
- Pages 176 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
$19.95
“A very lucid, warm hearted and judicious account of anthroposophy, which I read with pleasure and gratitude.” — Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Rudi Lissau offers a fascinating overview of Rudolf Steiner’s life, philosophy, meditative path, and work. He summarizes Steiner’s revolutionary thinking on Waldorf education, biodynamic farming, medicine, the arts, and the sciences, offering an inspiring alternative to bleak materialism.
Unique among spiritual teachers, Steiner was also an activist who campaigned against totalitarianism, nationalism, imperialism, and free-market capitalism, and advocated for a threefold commonwealth based on freedom, equality, and fraternity. Central to his teaching are profound insights into Christ and the destiny of humanity. Andrew Welburn’s Introduction contextualizes Steiner and spiritual modernity.
Contents include chapters on Rudolf Steiner and spiritual modernity; an overview of Steiner’s life; Christ and the destiny of humanity; the inner path; building alternative social and cultural initiatives; social renewal and activism; paths and obstacles; Steiner’s philosophy of freedom; and more, plus an afterword.
Rudi Lissau
Rudi Lissau (1911–2004) was born in Vienna to Jewish parents who had become students of Rudolf Steiner and were members of the Viennese branch of the Theosophical society, and thus Lissau met Steiner as a boy and began to study anthroposophy at the age of sixteen. achieved a doctorate from the University of Vienna. After obtaining his PhD, Rudi took a position teaching in a school for the blind. From a Jewish background, he fled Vienna for Britain on the day the Nazis arrived, and took up teaching at Wynstones Rudolf Steiner School in Gloucestershire. Later, he met and conferred with Viktor Frankl and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who both made a deep impression on him and stimulated his profound interest for contemporary issues that were the basis of his extraordinary knowledge and ability to address a wide variety of subjects in his teaching and lecturing. His worldwide lecturing and this book aimed at helping other seekers of the spirit connect with Rudolf Steiner.
