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The Social Archetype

Realizing Society's Threefold Unity, A New Goetheanism
  • ISBN-13: 9781912992553
  • Publisher: RUDOLF STEINER PRESS
    Imprint: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
  • By Nigel Hoffmann
  • Price: AUD $49.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 24/05/2024
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 155.00mm) 206 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Social theory [JHBA]
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We live in a time of multiple challenges to our rights and freedoms - not only in authoritarian regimes but also in liberal democracies around the globe. As the storm clouds of crisis gather, Rudolf Steiners social vision - now a century old - offers a clear way forward. Radical in his time and still so today, Steiners social threefolding is not conceived as a logical system. Rather, his picture of society as a living threefold unity, as a social organism, is an artistic insight that needs to be grasped imaginatively. To understand its three dimensions - the economic, the political-legal and cultural-spiritual spheres - and how they relate to each other, is to experience them inwardly. This requires a living, creative thinking that is able to enter the archetypal forces behind the concepts: a modern-day, truly Goethean approach to the social sciences. In an illuminating study, Hoffmanns dynamic presentation enables us to develop precisely such an artistic-imaginative understanding of the threefold social organism. He achieves this through clear descriptions of its principles and practical governance, whilst offering wise advice regarding the adaptation of education - at school and tertiary levels - for a threefold society.

NIGEL HOFFMANN PhD has been a high school teacher for eighteen years in Australian and Swiss Rudolf Steiner schools. He is the author of Goethes Science of Living Form, The Artistic Stages (Adonis Press) and The University at the Threshold, Orientation through Goethean Science (Rudolf Steiner Press). He is the coordinator of Atelier for the Social Quest: ateliersocialquest.com

 

 

Introduction - PART I - THE THREEFOLD SOCIAL ORDER - Chapter 1 - Rudolf Steiners Social Impulse - Chapter 2 - The Threefold Social Order - Chapter 3 - The Differentiation of the Three Social Spheres - PART II - A NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL ART - Chapter 4 - Social Science Re-imagined - Chapter 5 - Social Art -- PART III - THE THREE SPHERES AND THEIR GOVERNANCE - Chapter 6 - The Economic Sphere - Chapter 7 - The Political-Rights Sphere - Chapter 8 - The Cultural-Spiritual Sphere - Chapter 9 - The Question of Governance - PART IV - EDUCATION TOWARD THE THREEFOLD SOCIAL ORDER - Chapter 10 - School Education - Chapter 11 - Tertiary Education

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