Name: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: A Lecture Given by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin, December 1908
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf
ISBN: 9781258937928

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The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: A Lecture Given by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin, December 1908

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Publisher

Literary Licensing, LLC

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781258937928

Synopsis "The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: A Lecture Given by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin, December 1908"

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales is a book that contains the transcript of a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin in December 1908. In this lecture, Steiner explores the deeper meanings behind fairy tales and their significance in the development of human consciousness. He argues that fairy tales are not just stories for children, but contain important spiritual and psychological insights that can help us understand ourselves and the world around us. Steiner delves into the symbolism and archetypes found in fairy tales, and explains how they can be interpreted to reveal hidden truths about human nature and the spiritual realm. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the esoteric and mystical aspects of fairy tales, and the profound wisdom they contain.This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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