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  • The Beginning of Terror

    A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work

    by David Kleinbard ...
    Series series
    The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work."-Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston University"[A] well-reasoned, fairly fascinating, and illuminating study which soundly and convincingly ... Read more

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    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Margot Saar ...
    "It is a simple but essential principle: education aims at the future, at a time that we as educators do not yet know and cannot foresee. The challenges that will confront the children in the future are not those of the past--of our past, of our life story and our horizon. Times change, so do the realities of life, and in our times they change quickly and dramatically. Education aims at the future ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

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  • The Double

    A Psychoanalytic Study

    by Otto Rank ...
    Translated by Harry Tucker Jr. ...
    Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death — actually the core of human existence. Rank’s book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde.Originally published in 1971.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC ... Read more

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  • The Genius of Language

    Observations for Teachers (CW 299)

    by Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford, Ádám Makkai ...
    Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch ...
    Series Book 7 - Education
    6 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 26, 1919 - Jan. 3, 1920 (CW 299)To one who understands the sense of speechThe world unveilsIts image form.To one who listens to the soul of speechThe world unfoldsIts true being.To one who lives in the spirit depths of speechThe world gives freelyWisdom's strength.To one who lovingly can dwell on speechSpeech will accordIts inner might.So... ... Read more

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  • Rudolf Steiner on His Book "The Philosophy of Freedom"

    by Otto Palmer ...
    Translated by Marjorie Spock ...
    Eternal becoming in thinkingEvery step a deepeningOvercoming the surfacePenetrating the depths."--Rudolf SteinerMuch has been written by students of spiritual science on The Philosophy of Freedom, but the advantage of discovering what the author himself had to say about this most important and seminal work should be obvious. Not only were the words of the text chosen most carefully, but also its ... Read more

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  • In the Company of Rilke

    Why a 20th-century visionary poet speaks so eloquently to 21st-century readers yearning for inwardness, beauty and spiri

    by Stephanie Dowrick ...
    Stephanie Dowrick invites us into the transcendent and piercingly beautiful world of the much-loved early 20th century European poet, Rainer Maria Rilke and reveals how through his poetry we can connect with our inner life.'Stephanie Dowrick's gift is a capacity for sharing with readers her lifetime's pleasure in poetry and the company of one of the greatest of poets.'David Malouf, novelist and ... Read more

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  • The Rilke Alphabet

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Translated by Andrew Hamilton ...
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet's work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world's greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life's mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke's language, Baer examines ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

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  • Rilke: The Last Inward Man

    by Lesley Chamberlain ...
    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetryWhen Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, as too inward.In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this ... Read more

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  • Bremen and Freiburg Lectures

    Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    This volume presents two important lecture cycles delivered after WWII, exploring the poetry of Hölderlin and the nature of thought itself.Heidegger delivered his lecture series, Insight into That Which Is, at Bremen in 1949. It was his first speaking engagement after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him with ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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