A Legacy Restated: The Work of Bernhard Behrens: Four Essays with Current-day Reviews
Language: English
Published by SteinerBooks, 2024
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- Title
- A Legacy Restated: The Work of Bernhard Behrens: Four Essays with Current-day Reviews
- Author
- Houghton Budd, Christopher; Behrens, Bernhard
- Publisher
- SteinerBooks
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1621483819
- ISBN 13
- 9781621483816
These essays, written just after WWII by a German economist who arrived in the United States in 1940, provide an unexpectedly helpful contribution to an understanding of our present moment, writ large. Today, when the United States is coming to terms with its destiny and its true (as distinct from geopolitical) place in current and world history, seems a propitious time to re-publish these essays, which first saw the light of day in the mid-twentieth century.
Bernhard Behrens offers two main contributions: the first is to look at the United States through the eyes of a newly arrived outsider, with all the clarity that can entail. The second is his perspective on history, the perspective that Rudolf Steiner affords us, but not only him; Goethe also. For Goethe, too, had his eyes on the latencies of the US.
Updated from the 1950s, the view of the challenges and possibilities that Bernhard Behrens provides remain as perceptive and insightful now as when written, especially in regard to economic life and the nature and future of democracy - both topics that are at risk of coming loose from their moorings in humanity's wider story.
Lastly, the editors of these essays are all professionals in finance and well-versed in Rudolf Steiner's work. Moreover, although all are members of the Economics Conference of the Goetheanum - a worldwide research community in associative economics - they are not all Americans. One is Swiss and one is British. Combined with its mix of realism and idealism, this gives to their joint appraisal a welcome international eclecticism.
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About the Author
Christopher Houghton Budd is an economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in banking and international finance (Cass Business School, London). As director of the Centre for Associative Economics he works independently in many contexts ranging from mainstream to "green," from central banks to organic farms. He has made a special study of the economics works of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Houghton Budd writes frequently on economic affairs and has published a number of books including Prelude in Economics (1979), Of Wheat and Gold (1988), The Metamorphosis of Capitalism (2003), Rare Albion: A Monetary Allegory (2005), and Finance at the Threshold (2011).
Bernhard Behrens (1892-1952) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States via London and Canada in 1941. While still in Germany he published a seven-volume series on anthroposophically oriented economics--placing the free human spirit at the center of his considerations. Beyond his writings on economics and on Rudolf Steiner's "fundamental social law," little is known about his biography.
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