Artwork: "The Floating World" by Marion Donehower "In the context of the present dire world situation in which we witness ever-present threats of destruction and darkness, thoughts about Beauty and the Beautiful assume an aura of utopian speculation. On the...
“Poetry arises from the natural action of the human spirit. Does not every human being strive and compose at every moment?” -- Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen Poetry Night / St. John's Celebration On June 25, 2022, the Section for the Literary Arts and...
At the Section meeting on June 11, 2022 I gave a lecture presentation on American poet, playwright, biographer, and impresario Percy MacKaye, along with a look at the extended MacKaye family: Steele MacKaye, Arvia MacKaye, Christy MacKaye, Robin MacKaye, Marion...
"Does the Work of Our Section Really Matter?" Those who have been active in the Section for many years will recognize this question as the title of an essay by Vivien Law. You can read this brief essay, along with two other essays by Vivien Law, by clicking the...
"The Path of the Humanities Researcher" By Vivien Law This article is based on a talk given at the Michaelmas meeting of the School of Spiritual Science, September 2000. It subsequently appeared in the 2002 Annual of the Literary Arts and Humanities...
"Hyacinth and Rosebud" / Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Purchase or Preview What is anthroposophy then? It is a marker on a path traveled by those who strive for inner development. This striving can happen as a matter of choice and human...
Clifford Venho, an editor at SteinerBooks, gave an overview of The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner project. Clifford spoke at a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities that occurred on May 14, 2022. We dedicated this meeting to the memory of...
“It is really quite unfortunate,” said Klingsohr, “that poetry has a high brow reputation and that poets are set apart as special types. There is nothing so very mysterious about it. Poetry happens as a natural function of the human mind. Does not every human...
˛ Our April 30, 2022 meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America featured Arie van Amerigen from Montreal, Canada. Arie spoke to us about his 2021 publication: The Foundation Stone Meditation and the...
Mont Ventoux? At our meeting on April 16 we walked a bit farther up the mountain called Art and Theory of Art: Foundations of a New Aesthetic, lectures by Rudolf Steiner published by SteinerBooks. We surveyed and discussed the Table of Contents and refreshed our...
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