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Collected Essays from Das Goetheanum
1921–1925
GA 36

No. Title
1. Hopeful Aspects of the Present World Situation
2. The Global Issue
3. America and Germany
4. What Can Counteract the Divisive Aspects of Contemporary Life?
5. Wilson's Legacy
6. Unemployment
7. Feelings While Reading the Third Volume of Bismarck
8. The Neglect of Intellectual Life in World Affairs
9. The False and the True Threefold Order of the Social Organism
10. What we Should See Today
11. The Austrian Chief of Staff, Conrad, Within the World Catastrophe
12. An Observer of World Crises
13. The Genoa Conference: A 'Necessity'
14. Emile Boutroux
15. Vladimir Solovyov, a Mediator between West and East
16. West-East Aphorisms
17. Further West-East Aphorisms
18. Psychological Aphorisms
19. Contemporary Man and History
20. Spengler's Perspectives of World History
21. The Flight from Thinking
22. Spengler's Physiognomic View of History
23. Spengler's Spirit-Deserted History
24. Apparent and Real Perspectives of Culture
25. The Buried Spirit of Central European Literature
26. A Contribution to the Revival of “Sunken Intellectual Life”
27. On Popular Christmas Plays
28. On the Performance of our Popular Christmas Plays
29. How a Poetic-Enthusiastic Personality Fifty Years Ago Sensed Our Time
30. Faust and Hamlet
31. Goethe, the Observer, and Schiller, the Thinker
32. Why a Hundred-year-old “Anthropology” is Being Republished
33. Something about the Change of Mind in the History of Mankind
34. Goethe in his Growth
35. Goethe at the Height of his Creation
36. Goethe and Mathematics
37. Apparent and Real Perspectives of Culture
38. Understanding People (Brentano and Nietzsche)
39. The Philosopher as a Riddle-maker
40. Hands of the Philosopher
41. A Perhaps Contemporary Personal Memory
42. How the “Present” Quickly Turns into “History” Today
43. The Necessary Change in the Intellectual Life of the Present Day
44. Yesterday's Spirit and Today's Spirit
45. The Inadequacy of a Spirit-Seeker
46. How the History of Poetry Lost its Mind
47. Albert Steffen as Lyric Poet
48. Albert Steffen: The Quadruped
49. Albert Steffen's “Pilgrimage to the Tree of Life”
50. “Der Spiegelmensch” (The Mirror Man) by Franz Werfel
51. A New Book about Atheism
52. Unpretentious Aphorisms on the Book: Reformation or Anthroposophy?
53. Alois Mager's writing “Theosophy and Christianity”
54. The Scientific Method of Anthroposophy
55. What is the Nature of the Opposition to Anthroposophy?
56. Is Anthroposophy Fantasy?
57. Anthroposophy and Idealism
58. Anthroposophy and Mysticism
59. The Goetheanum in Dornach and its Work
60. Anthroposophy, Education, School
61. A Lecture on Pedagogy
62. Pedagogy and Art
63. Pedagogy and Morality
64. Language and the Spirit of Language
65. Introductory Words to a Eurythmy Performance
66. Eurythmic Art
67. Art and Science
67. The Goetheanum in Its Ten Years
68. Goethe and the Goetheanum
69. Michael and the Dragon I
70. Michael and the Dragon II
71. Goethe's Cultural Environment and the Present Epoch
72. The Human Soul in the Twilight of Dreams
73. The Human Soul in the Light of Spirit Vision
74. The Human Soul on the Path to Self-Observation
75. The Human Soul in Courage and Fear
76. Spiritual is 'Forgotten' by the Ordinary Consciousness
77. Second Goetheanum