{"id":6414,"date":"2024-04-02T23:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:33:42","slug":"why-should-i-care-about-novalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/es\/why-should-i-care-about-novalis\/","title":{"rendered":"\"\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 deber\u00eda interesarme Novalis?\""},"content":{"rendered":"

“He hovered. like a cloud . . .<\/strong>
\nlike an element of nature, active in rain and sunshine.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Rudolf Steiner,<\/strong>
\ndescribing the Prophet Elijah;<\/strong>
\nSeptember 17, 1912<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Easter – Pentecost 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Friends,<\/strong><\/p>\n

This page began as a resource page for students in the April, 2024 Chrysalis Course: “Why Should I Care About Novalis?” The course began on April 9, 2024, and it finished on April 30, 2024. It was sponsored by the American Anthroposophical Society and was an offering arising from the work of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Admittedly, most people probably haven’t heard or bothered with the early romantic German poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), although this is not the case in anthroposophy, where Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner pioneered the anthroposophical movement upon the inspirations and guidance of Novalis. Yet, even in anthroposophy, Novalis poses problems for folks, and the question often arises: “Why Should I Care About Novalis?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this ASA-sponsored Chrysalis course, I focused primarily on Rudolf Steiner’s reading of Novalis, rather than the literary Novalis — and I explained what I meant by that distinction in an attempt to answer the question “Why Should I Care About Novalis?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this page you can find the edited video lectures from the four-session class, in addition to the resources that I posted for the class. The older materials have been on this website for a number of years, but I included them here in one place to make things helpful.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chrysalis Lecture One \/ The “Novalis” Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n