Beschreibung
First printing of Rudolf Steiner's dissertation in philosophy. The following year it was re-published in book form, with a short final chapter added, as Wahrheit und Wissenschaft: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Freiheit, 1892. Unlike the many subsequent writings that made Steiner famous, this early dissertation contains no occult material. 'Steiner spent his seven year period in Weimar completing, in all essential respects, his philosophical canon. When he arrived in Weimar he had not yet earned his doctorate in philosophy, in spite of the fact that he had already written and published an important philosophical work on the theory of knowledge implicit in Goethe's world conception (1886) and had prepared a kind of sequel to that work that might be acceptable as a doctoral dissertation. From the point of view of the authorities in the University of Vienna, Steiner's formal education had been deficient. Having attended only the Realschule and not the Gymnasium he was not eligible to receive a doctorate in philosophy, however brilliant his dissertation. . Early in his stay in Weimar Steiner came upon a three-volume work on Plato, written by a certain Heinrich von Stein, professor of philosophy at the University of Rostock in northern Germany. Greatly impressed by this work on Plato, Steiner thought it possible that von Stein might be willing to sponsor his dissertation. So he sent off the manuscript and in due course received word that it was acceptable, and instructing him to go to Rostock for his examination, which took place in May 1891. To his disappointment the oral examination was concerned only with Kant, and not, as he had hoped, with Plato, whom he had in the meantime studied intensively. Kant, of course, presented no difficulties. So Rudolf Steiner earned his doctorate at the age of thirty from a university he had never attended, and did not know, and from a professor whom he met only on this occasion' (Stewart Copinger Easton, Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch, 1980, pp. 54-6). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Sammelband (21 x 15cm, approx. 900 pp.) with 16 dissertations on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer and Herbart, 1870-1901, (Steiner's work bound in eleventh place, title-page creased and marginalia in pencil), contemporary half vellum; with a second Sammelband containing 5 philosophical essays and one volume of the journal 'Vierteljahresschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie, 1876-99, both volumes bound uniform. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1642260850988
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