{"product_id":"life-for-the-spirit-book-henry-barnes-9780880103954","title":"A Life for the Spirit","description":"\"Whether or not Steiner's insights are valid is for each of us to determine. His work is not easy, and he challenges our usual thinking every step of the way. The insights are radical, in the original meaning of that word: they go to the roots. We are forced more and more to realize that only through such thinking can actions arise that are truly healing and constructive.\" --\u003cb\u003eHenry Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (from the introduction) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew people today recognize Rudolf Steiner's name, yet those who are aware of him know that his presence pervades every forward-looking aspect of contemporary life. Nearly all fields of life have been fructified by his insights--not abstractly or theoretically, but in a concrete way that changes lives. No wonder, then, that Steiner has been called \"the best kept secret of the twentieth century.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1861 in Kraljvec, Austria, Steiner showed evidence early on of the most varied gifts--a precise and probing scientific mind combined with a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world, a determined need to think things through for himself, and a profound reverence for the divine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe first made his mark as a philosopher and the editor of Goethe's scientific writings. He also recognized the revolutionary spirit in Nietzsche. But Steiner's destiny led him in a different direction. Profound cognitive experiences determined that his task would lie in service to the spirit. While recognizing the integrity of modern science's phenomenological empiricism, he also knew that the time had come to extend the field of science to include investigation of the supersensible. Working at first within the Theosophical Society, but always speaking and writing out of his own experience, Steiner developed the foundations for a thoroughly modern spiritual-scientific discipline that would transform spiritual and cultural life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil his death in 1925, in countless lectures and books, Steiner created the body of knowledge and practice known as \"anthroposophy,\" which not only challenged and extended the underlying methods of modern knowledge, but stimulated many practical cultural initiatives such as: Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, the art of eurythmy, the movement for a threefold social order, and anthroposophical medicine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Barnes--the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInto the Heart's Land: A Century of Rudolf Steiner's Work in North America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--recounts the dynamic life of this remarkable man. He does so by placing Steiner in the crosscurrents of history and showing him not as a spectator or ivory-tower philosopher, but as a leading actor in the drama, one whose entire being was given in service to humanity and to the spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Foreword by Robert McDermott \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: In Search of a New Thinking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Twentieth Century: Battleground for Human Individuality \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Child of Middle Europe: Biographical Foundations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Weimar Years: Nietzsche, Steiner, and the Redemption of Thinking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Years of Inner Testing: Berlin \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Work Unfolds \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Building Rises \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Insight Becomes Life: The Three fold Movement for Social Reform \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The First Waldorf School and the Independence of Education \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Healing Arts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Religious Renewal \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Out of Fire \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Renewal from Within: The Christmas Foundation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Months of Grace \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Afterword: The Battle Continues--What Can I Do? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579692032273,"sku":"GOR005046223","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50139288011025,"sku":"CIN0880103957G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333162631441,"sku":"CIN0880103957VG","price":6.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880103957.jpg?v=1751044365","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/life-for-the-spirit-book-henry-barnes-9780880103954","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}