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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


  1. Goethe, Steiner, and Bildung in the 21st Century Lisabeth Hock Associate Professor of German Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749- 1832)

  3. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)

  4. Matter can never exist and be active without Spirit, and Spirit can never exist and be active without Matter Goethe

  5. To educate myself, just as I am, that was my wish and my intention already in my youth. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

  6. 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”

  7. 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”

  8. 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”

  9. 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”

  10. Ernst Haeckel, Art Forms in Nature , 1904

  11. Waldorf Schools Fulda Detroit

  12. Anish Kapoor “When I am Pregnant,” 1992

  13. The High Line, NYC

  14. Joseph Beuys, “7000 Oaks” (1982)

  15. Giuseppe Penone, Albero Porta 1993-1995

  16. Science - Art = Knowledge - Imagination R. Steiner

  17. One must be able to think in colors, in forms, just as one can think in concepts and ideas. R. Steiner

  18. Spirit is never without Matter, Matter never without Spirit. R. Steiner

  19. WSU

  20. Olafur Eliasson, New York City Waterfalls, 2008

  21. Katharina Grosse “Holey Residue,” 2006 “Dirty Yoga,” 2006

  22. 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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