Discover new books on Goodreads

See if your friends have read any of Rudolf Steiner's books

more photos (1)

Rudolf Steiner’s Followers (1,172)

Rudolf Steiner

Born

in Murakirály, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire

February 25, 1861

Died

March 30, 1925

Genre

Philosophy, Spirituality

Influences

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Helena Blavatsky, Ari ...more

edit data

Author also wrote under the name Rudolph Steiner.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted Author also wrote under the name Rudolph Steiner.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
...more

Combine Editions
Rudolf Steiner’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 14,341 ratings · 981 reviews · 4,455 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation by Rudolf Steiner, Sabine H. Seiler (Translator), Rudolf Steiner 4.28 avg rating — 2,194 ratings — published 1904 — 440 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom 4.19 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 1894 — 340 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos 4.12 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 1904 — 318 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Outline of Occult Science 3.93 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1910 — 309 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Education of the Child: And Early Lectures on Education (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 25) 4.10 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1907 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Temperaments: 1 lecture, Berlin, March 4, 1909 (CW 57) (Collected Works, 57) by Rudolf Steiner, Frances E. Dawson (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1966 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Outline of Esoteric Science: (CW 13) (Classics in Anthroposophy) by Rudolf Steiner, Catherine E. Creeger (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1910 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmic Memory: Atlantis and Lemuria 4.09 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1959 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bees (CW 351) by Rudolf Steiner, David Adams (Goodreads Author) (Afterword), Thomas Braatz (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1923 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthroposophy in Everyday Life: Practical Training in Thought - Overcoming Nervousness - Facing Karma - The Four Temperaments by Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1912 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Rudolf Steiner…

Series by Rudolf Steiner

Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner (158 books)
by

Rudolf Steiner,

Michael Debus (Afterword),

Andrew Welburn (Translator),

Christopher Bamford (Introduction)

4.21 avg rating — 7,479 ratings

Classics in Anthroposophy (7 books)
by

Rudolf Steiner,

Samuel Desch (Translator),

Hilmar Moore (Introduction)

4.22 avg rating — 4,200 ratings

Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom (9 books)
by

Rudolf Steiner,

Matthew Barton (Compilation)

4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings

Kleine Steiners (20 books)
by

Rudolf Steiner

4.14 avg rating — 100 ratings

The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman (4 books)
by

Rudolf Steiner

4.27 avg rating — 85 ratings

More series by Rudolf Steiner…

Quotes by Rudolf Steiner (?)

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
― Rudolf Steiner

247 likes

“If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.”
― Rudolf Steiner

155 likes

“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.”
― Rudolf Steiner

tags: education

144 likes

See all Rudolf Steiner's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC	2291	763	Dec 28, 2012 03:29PM
The History Book ...: AFTERLIFE	25	304	Jan 23, 2019 05:31PM
Goodreads Librari...: Clean up XIV	1021	638	Mar 21, 2022 05:31PM
Black Coffee: Spell It Forward	1802	258	Jun 20, 2024 09:02AM

More…

Rudolf Steiner’s Followers (1,172)

Rudolf Steiner

Combine EditionsRudolf Steiner’s books

Series by Rudolf Steiner

Topics Mentioning This Author

Combine Editions
Rudolf Steiner’s books