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The Renewal of the Social Organism

Neugestaltung des sozialen Organismus

Fourteen lectures given publicly and to workers at the Daimler-Benz works, the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory and other industrial enterprises, Stuttgart 22 April to 30 July 1919.

History often provides insight into the present. Consider the American South one hundred and fifty years ago, for example. There, human rights and economic servitude were compressed onto a single domain for black Americans. They became a means of production that could be bought and sold as a commodity. In many parts of the South, it was forbidden to teach blacks to read. Control by law of education, part of culture, was found necessary to subordinate human rights to economics. The domain of rights and economics thus also engulfed culture. Joseph Weizenbaum, from the forewordCulture, politics, economics these are the three core activities of society; the health of any society depends on a harmonious interaction among these three activities. And, according to Rudolf Steiner, this is impossible unless they are autonomous to the degree that they can each find their own essential character. In his foreword, Joseph Weizenbaum observes that those who framed the United States Constitution understood this at least partially when they developed the doctrine of a separate church and state. These essays cover a range of subjects money, the division of labor, human motivation, and education. They offer refreshing insights into the nature of modern society as well as guidance for solving today's pressing social problems.

Contents

    Foreword by Joseph Weizenbaum
    Four Articles from the Newspaper "The Social Future: "
    The Threefold Social Organism, Democracy, and Socialism
    The International Economy and the Threefold Social Order
    Culture, Law, and Economics
    The Threefold Social Order and Social Trust: Capital and Credit
    Twenty Articles from the Newspaper "The Threefold Social Order"
    The Threefold Division of the Social Organism, a Necessity of the Age
    International Aspects of the Threefold Social Order
    Marxism and the Threefold Social Order
    The Threefold Social Order and Educational Freedom
    What Is Needed?
    Ability for Work, Will to Work, and the Threefold Social Order
    What Socialists Do Not See
    Socialist Stumbling Blocks
    What the New Spirit Demands
    Economic Profit and the Spirit of the Age
    Cultivation of the Spirit and Economic Life
    Law and Economics
    Social Spirit and Socialist Superstition
    The Pedagogical Basis of the Waldorf School
    Fundamental Fallacy in Social Thought
    The Roots of Social Life
    The Basis of the Threefold Social Order
    Real Enlightenment as the Basis of Social Thought
    Longing for New Thoughts
    Wanted: Insight!
    Appendix:
    An Appeal to the German Nation and to the Civilized World
    The Way to Save the German Nation

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: The Renewal of the Social Organism. CW 330. Foreword by Joseph Weizenbaum. SteinerBooks 1985. ISBN 978-0880101257; eBook ASIN B008F9U93G

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Neugestaltung des sozialen Organismus, GA 330 (1983), ISBN 3-7274-3300-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe Nr. 11, 1963, S. 16f. (Rudolf Steiner: Welchen Sinn hat die Arbeit des modernen Proletariers?, Konzept für einen öffentlichen Vortrag, gehalten am 8. März 1919) pdf

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