Steiner Studies: Band 5 - 2024

Book review

• Henry Holland: Jost Schieren: Anthroposophy: The Philosophical Sources [Die philosophischen Quellen der Anthroposophie] Frankfurt am Main 2022: Info3. 344 pages. Price: € 24.90. ISBN: 978-3-95779-157-3. DOI:10.12857/STS.951000540-18
  
  Abstract

  This publication presents revised manuscripts from »The Philosophical Sources of Anthroposophy« lecture series (hereafter: Sources), given at Alanus University near Bonn, Germany, in winter 2017–2018. It has not yet been translated for an English-language edition, and it would serve Anglophone readers tremendously if it were to be: nothing comparable exists in English. Containing the arguments of eleven lectures given by ten different scholars, the work elucidates Steiner’s responses, and suggests intellectual connections, to some of the most canonical protagonists in the history of western ideas. In so doing, the authors also integrate twenty-first century perspectives – by the German phenomenologist Iris Henningfeld and the Canadian Charles Taylor, for example – and by non-anthroposophical thinkers who impacted debates on philosophy and psychology in Steiner’s day, most notably Franz Brentano (1838–1917), Eduard von Hartmann (1842– 1906), and Edmund Husserl (1859–1938).
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Articles:

• Christian Clement Anthroposophy in Germany A Century (and Two Centuries) Ago – Rudolf Steiner and F. W. J. Schelling. DOI:10.12857/STS.951000540-19
  
  Abstract

  Although Rudolf Steiner’s thinking is deeply rooted in the philosophy of German Idealism and in various respects understands itself as a continuation or transformation of the impulses expressed in this tradition, this aspect has received little attention in Steiner research to date. While only the very first attempts at systematic research into the significance of Kant, Fichte and Hegel for Steiner have been made, there are virtually no significant analyses of the relationship between the founder of anthroposophy and F. W. J. Schelling. This essay therefore aims to outline the various aspects and dimensions of Steiner’s spiritual affinity with the philosopher of Leonberg and thus encourage further research in this area.
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