This Civilisation is Finished by Rupert Read

His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany. This conception of nature, Steiner argued, was the correct interpretation of Goethe’s “archetypal phenomena,” namely, that by staying with the phenomena itself one could observe the spiritual essence of the world without having to resort to abstract metaphysical systems that explain the hidden truth-i.e., natural science-but rather one could experience such spiritual essences phenomenologically and empirically.Īaron J.

I'm once again joined by Paul Bishop and Aaron French to discuss the overlap between the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Rudolf Steiner, especially in relation to the spiritual and religious crisis of modernity.ġ) At one point I said in the Nietzsche house in Weimar there is a picture of Heidegger in his “Nazi uniform.” I was just making a point here in reality it is a photo of Heidegger in his large brown overcoat with a shiny Nazi pin on his breast, which is of course suggestive of a uniform.Ģ) The book in German that deals with the history of Steiner and the Nietzsche archives is David Marc Hoffmann, Zur Geschichte Des Nietzsche-Archivs: Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Fritz Koegel, Rudolf Steiner, Gustav Naumann, Josef Hofmiller: Chronik, Studien Und Dokumente (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1991).ģ) For Steiner, the later philosophy of Nietzsche is a necessary spiritual confrontation with the logical conclusion and endpoint of the development of Western philosophy.Ĥ) In terms of Kant’s inaccessible noumenal realm, Steiner came to see Goethe’s concept of morphology as providing crucial insight into his later Geisteswissenschaft (spiritual science), which claimed that higher organs of perception could be developed to observe a hidden and spiritual part of nature that was creative and alive and not mechanical. In this episode we discuss the work of Maurice Blanchot, alongside discussions on apophatic theology, Derrida, death, and more.īitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLKĮthereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74 Hope, Samuel Johnson and Mauriceīlanchot, and a translation of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D.

Sustained contribution to Australian poetry. He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Kevin Hart (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA.

This Civilisation is Finished by Rupert Read