Rudolf Steiner / Heiner Ullrich ; translated by Janet Duke and Daniel Balestrini.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index.

Foreword -- Prologue -- Intellectual Biography -- Childhood and Youth Abroad: Scholastic Success and Intellectual Curiosity -- Studies and Work as a Tutor in Vienna: The Basis for an Idealistic Worldview -- Archivist in Weimar: The Philosophy of Goethean Natural Science -- Writer and Speaker in Berlin: The Free Spirit Converts to Theosophy -- The Path to the Goetheanum: The Elaboration of Anthroposophy as Science, Religion and Art -- A New Era: The Wisdom Teacher's Move to Social Reform and Renewal of Education -- Critical Exposition of Steiner's Philosophical and Educational Work -- Goetheanism: The Epistemological Early Works -- Anthroposophy: An Overview of Steiner's Basic Teachings -- The Path of Cognition -- Cosmology: Emanation of the Spirit and the World's Evolution -- Anthropology: Man's Fourfold Architecture -- Man's Functional Threefold Structure -- Biography as Reincarnation and Destinal Chain ('Karma') -- The Four Temperaments -- Ages and the Development of the Human Person -- The Concept of Education -- The Free Waldorf School -- A School in the Spirit of Anthroposophy? -- The Waldorf Pre-School and the Anthroposophical Curative Education -- The Reception and Influence of Steiner's Work -- Anthroposophy as a Philosophy Without Boundaries -- Anthroposophy as the Return of Mythical Thought within Science -- Anthroposophy - A Modernized Form of Gnosis -- The Free Waldorf School: A School of Classic Progressive Education? -- Between Prohibition and Continuation as Experimental State School: The Ambivalent Interest of NSDAP in Waldorf School Practice -- The Importance of Waldorf Pedagogy for State Schools -- Waldorf Schools: The Dubious Character of their Fundamentals and the Prerequisites of Their Success -- Learning from the Waldorf Schools - A New Dialogue and its Themes -- The Relevance of Steiner /Waldorf Schools Today -- The Global Success of Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy -- How Successful are Waldorf Schools? - Evaluation Studies -- What Do Waldorf Pupils Do after Graduation and How Do They See Their School in Retrospect? - Alumni Studies -- How Do Teachers and Pupils View the Waldorf School? - Attitude Studies -- Class Teacher-Pupil Relationships at Waldorf Schools - A Current Research Contribution -- Epilogue.

Translated from the German.

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