Goethe, Steiner, and Bildung in the 21st Century Lisabeth Hock Associate Professor of German Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749- 1832)
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
Matter can never exist and be active without Spirit, and Spirit can never exist and be active without Matter Goethe
To educate myself, just as I am, that was my wish and my intention already in my youth. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Study it now as it grows, and see how the plant, ever changing, Step by step carried up, forms into blossoms and fruit. “The Metamorphosis of Plants”
Thus may we always distinguish among plants the child. Soon a following impulse lifts itself upward, repeating, Joint upon joint built up, ever the earliest form; Yet not always the same. “The Metamorphosis of Plants”
Variously ribbed and jagged, on the teeming, exuberant surface Seems the fullness of life free and unbounded to be. But here Nature holds, with powerful hands, the formation Back, and to more perfect shape softly inclines it to grow. “The Metamorphosis of Plants”
Every animal an end unto itself, complete it emerges From the womb of nature and produces complete children. All the limbs form themselves according to eternal laws. And the rarest forms preserve, hidden, the original pattern. “The Metamorphosis of Animals”
Ernst Haeckel, Art Forms in Nature , 1904
Waldorf Schools Fulda Detroit
Anish Kapoor “When I am Pregnant,” 1992
The High Line, NYC
Joseph Beuys, “7000 Oaks” (1982)
Giuseppe Penone, Albero Porta 1993-1995
Science - Art = Knowledge - Imagination R. Steiner
One must be able to think in colors, in forms, just as one can think in concepts and ideas. R. Steiner
Spirit is never without Matter, Matter never without Spirit. R. Steiner
WSU
Olafur Eliasson, New York City Waterfalls, 2008
Katharina Grosse “Holey Residue,” 2006 “Dirty Yoga,” 2006
If we merely treat people as they are, we will make them worse; if we treat them as they should be, we can help them become what they are capable of becoming. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
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