The Spiritual Background to the First World War
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The Spiritual Background to the First World War

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The Spiritual Background to the First World War

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With the unprecedented global conflict of the First World War as an overarching theme, Rudolf Steiner addresses timeless issues such as the search for harmony between peoples and nations, the development of the human capacity for love, the contemporary presence of Christ, and the questions of reincarnation and life after death. Speaking in the German city of Stuttgart during and after the war years, Steiner discusses the perpetual tension between East and West – particularly in relation to Europe. The war, he says, arose principally out of the Anglo-Saxon peoples' determination 'to exercise world-domination'. Knowing that Slavic culture is destined to be the precursor of the sixth cultural epoch, Western national interests resolved to make Eastern Europe – specifically Russia – 'the field for socialist experiments'. These events were aggravated by the failure of the Central European peoples in their own world-historical task, to 'rise to a broad sense of vision' as intermediaries between the two groups. Throughout, Steiner refers to the work of individual Folk Souls, but distinguishes them from the scourge of nationalism – especially when it is based on blood – whilst emphasizing the sovereignty of the individual human being. Although more than a century old, the enduring themes of these previously-untranslated lectures will resonate with many readers today. The main text is supplemented with an introduction by Simon Blaxland-de Lange, editorial notes and an index. Sixteen lectures, Stuttgart, Sept. 1914–March 1921, GA 174b

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Information

Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781855846616
eBook ISBN
9781855846487
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Publisher’s Note
  6. Introduction, by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
  7. Lecture 1 Stuttgart, 30 September 1914
  8. Lecture 2 Stuttgart, 13 February 1915
  9. Lecture 3 Stuttgart, 14 February 1915
  10. Lecture 4 Stuttgart, 22 November 1915
  11. Lecture 5 Stuttgart, 23 November 1915
  12. Lecture 6 Stuttgart, 24 November 1915
  13. Lecture 7 Stuttgart, 12 March 1916
  14. Lecture 8 Stuttgart, 15 March 1916
  15. Lecture 9 Stuttgart, 11 May 1917
  16. Lecture 10 Stuttgart, 13 May 1917
  17. Lecture 11 Stuttgart, 15 May 1917
  18. Lecture 12 Stuttgart, 23 February 1918
  19. Lecture 13 Stuttgart, 24 February 1918
  20. Lecture 14 Stuttgart, 23 April 1918
  21. Lecture 15 Stuttgart, 26 April 1918
  22. Lecture 16 Stuttgart, 21 March 1921
  23. Notes
  24. Rudolf Steiner’s Collected Works
  25. Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner
  26. Index