SOCIAL THREEFOLDING

Rebalancing Culture, Politics & Economics. An Introductory Reader

Rudolf Steiner, Stephen E. Usher

• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781855845558
• eBook ISBN:
  9781855846180
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

In the aftermath of the devastating First World War, Rudolf Steiner gained a reputation as a leading social thinker. One mainstream reviewer of his book Towards Social Renewal referred to it as '… perhaps the most widely read of all books on politics appearing since the war'. Steiner's proposals for the reconstruction of Europe and the rebuilding of society's crumbling social structure were thus publicly discussed as a serious alternative to both Communism and Capitalism.Steiner's 'threefold' ideas involved the progressive independence of society's economic, political and cultural institutions. This would be realised through the promotion of human rights and equality in political life, freedom in the cultural realm and associative cooperation in economics or business.In this carefully assembled anthology of Steiner's lectures and writing, Stephen E. Usher gathers key concepts and insights to form a coherent picture of social threefolding. Apart from fundamental lectures on the theme, the volume also features the full content of Steiner's unique Memoranda of 1917. The original texts are complemented with the Editor's introduction, commentary and notes.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Seminal Ideas and Historic Moments by Stephen E. Usher
• 1. Psychological Cognition
• 2. The Social Question
• 3. The Science of the Spiritual and the Social Question
• 4. The Social Question and Theosophy
• 5. Memoranda of 1917
• 6. The Metamorphosis of Intelligence
• 7. Culture, Law and Economy
• 8. Central Europe between East and West
• Notes
• Sources
• Further Reading