Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW) are based on the German Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (GA), which has been published step by step by Rudolf Steiner Verlag since the early 1960s. It comprises Rudolf Steiner's writings, the entire lecture work, which according to current knowledge consists of 5611 lectures, as far as documents are available, and Steiner's artistic work in the form of high-quality reproductions, including the more than 1000 surviving blackboard drawings. In addition, a comprehensive documentation of Steiner's work is being compiled. So far, more than 350 volumes of the complete edition have already been published in German. Around a third of the volumes of the writings and lectures are also available as paperback editions (Tb).
On Reading Spiritual Scientific Books
„One of the most essential conditions of a book that has grown out of spiritual science is that one not only absorbs the content of such a book, that is the very least. It is necessary that, when one has absorbed this book, one has in a certain way changed the way in which one thinks and feels and senses; that one has advanced in relation to the standards and modes of judgement which one otherwise applies in the ordinary world. This is the difficulty that still stands in the way of understanding spiritual-scientific works today, that people read them like other writings and believe that they can absorb the content as with other writings; whereas it is in fact the case that something must have been transformed in one when one has really understood an occult book, a genuine occult book.“ (Lit.:GA 156, p. 16)
Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
A | Writings | CW (GA) |
I | Works 1884-1925 | 1 - 28 |
II | Collected Essays | 29 - 37 |
III | Publications from the Estate | 38 - 50 |
B | Lectures | |
I | Introductory Lectures | 51 - 86 |
II | Lectures on General Anthroposophy | 87 - 270 |
III | Lectures and Courses on Individual Fields of Life | 271 - 354 |
Lectures on Art | 271 - 292 | |
Lectures on Education | 293 - 311 | |
Lectures on Medicine | 312 - 319 | |
Lectures on Natural Science | 320 - 327 | |
Lectures on Social Life and the Threefold Structure of the Social Organism | 328 - 341 | |
Lectures and courses on Christian-religious work | 342 - 346 | |
Lectures for the Workers at the Goetheanum | 347 - 354 | |
C | Reproductions and Publications from the Artistic Work | |
D | Contributions to Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works |
Literatur
German
- Wolfgang Gädeke, Christward Kröner: Wortgetreu und unverfälscht? Haben wir in der Gesamtausgabe Texte Rudolf Steiners?, Flensburger Hefte, Sonderband 20, 2002, ISBN 978-3-935679-05-3 (Kritik an der Editionspraxis der Rudolf-Steiner-Nachlaßverwaltung)
- Michel Schweizer, David M. Hoffmann (Hrsg.): ARCHIVMAGAZIN. Beiträge aus dem Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Nr. 6 Juni 2017, Zur Qualität der stenografischen Mitschriften von Rudolf Steiners Vorträgen, Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 2017, ISBN 978-3-7274-8206-9
- Friedwart Husemann: Rudolf Steiners Schriften: in 50 kurzen Porträts, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3-7235-1596-9
- Rudolf Steiner: Okkultes Lesen und okkultes Hören, GA 156 (2003), ISBN 3-7274-1561-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Kunst im Lichte der Mysterienweisheit, GA 275 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-2750-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
Reference works
- Rudolf Steiner, Emil Mötteli: Übersichtsbände zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe, 3 Bände, 2. erweiterte Auflage, Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1998, ISBN 978-3727440205
- Christian Karl: Handbuch zum Werk Rudolf Steiners - bewährtes Standardwerk zur Orientierung im Gesamtwerk Steiners zum kostenfreien Download als PDF (68 MB); jetzt auch in englischer Version verfügbar.
- Urs Schwendener: Lexikon Anthroposophie - Nachschlagewerk unter weitestgehender Verwendung des Originalwortlautes Rudolf Steiners mit Volltextsuche (Steinerdatenbank.de).
- Hans Schmidt: Das Vortragswerk Rudolf Steiners: Verzeichnis der von Rudolf Steiner gehaltenen Vorträge, Ansprachen, Kurse und Zyklen, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1978, ISBN 978-3723501894
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References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
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