Representative Men : In the Light of Anthroposophy with a Chapter on the Twelve Worldviews

T H Meyer

ISBN 10: 1584201398 / ISBN 13: 9781584201397

Published by Lindisfarne Books Okt 2012, 2012

Neuware - Moses - Grünewald - Goethe - Nietzsche - Wilde - Kafka - Eckstein - Steiner'Here I sat, waiting--not for anything--Beyond Good and Evil, fancyingNow light, now shadows, all a game, All lake, all noon, all time without all aim.Then, suddenly, friend, one turned into two--And Zarathustra walked into my view.' -- Nietzsche (The Gay Science)Each individual portrayed in this book may, beyond his unique nature, be considered representative of one or several aspects of human nature and human striving, and for the obstacles such striving must encounter.Goethe displays the struggle for universal moral, scientific, and artistic values throughout lifetimes, bridging and linking whole ages.Nietzsche is perhaps the representative of the new faculty of inspiration and the challenge to complement it by intuition.Oscar Wilde represents the stage of soul development at which insight into the worthlessness of vanity and ambition dawns with the power of a purifying tempest.Kafka represents those millions of people who are drawn toward the threshold of the spiritual world but lack the courage to cross it.Eckstein, the great friend of Steiner's youth, is representative of the tendency to withhold esoteric knowledge from the majority of human beings and to keep it as a possession of 'the privileged few,' an attitude that still prevails in certain occult streams.Rudolf Steiner worked to make esoteric truths public and showed ways toward a radically new knowledge of the spirit and a new mobility of thought. Seller Inventory # 9781584201397

Synopsis:

Each individual portrayed in this book may, beyond his unique nature, be considered representative of one or several aspects of human nature and human striving, and for the obstacles such striving must encounter. Goethe displays the struggle for universal moral, scientific, and artistic values throughout lifetimes, bridging and linking whole ages. Nietzsche is perhaps the representative of the new faculty of inspiration and the challenge to complement it by intuition. Oscar Wilde represents the stage of soul development at which insight into the worthlessness of vanity and ambition dawns with the power of a purifying tempest. Kafka represents those millions of people who are drawn toward the threshold of the spiritual world but lack the courage to cross it. Eckstein, the great friend of Steiner's youth, is representative of the tendency to withhold esoteric knowledge from the majority of human beings and to keep it as a possession of "the privileged few," an attitude that still prevails in certain occult streams. Rudolf Steiner worked to make esoteric truths public and showed ways toward a radically new knowledge of the spirit and a new mobility of thought.

About the Author: T. H. Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1950. He is the founder of Perseus Verlag, Basel, and is editor of the monthly journal Der Europäer. He has written numerous articles and is the author of several books, including Reality, Truth, and Evil (2005) and major biographies of D.N. Dunlop and Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz. He also edited Light for the New Millennium (1997) describing Rudolf Steiner's association with Helmuth and Eliza von Moltke.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Representative Men : In the Light of ...
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Okt 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu