{"product_id":"representative-men-paperback-1","title":"Representative Men: In the Light of Anthroposophy with a Chapter on the Twelve Worldviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eT. H. Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarla Vlad\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoses - Grünewald - Goethe - Nietzsche - Wilde - Kafka - Eckstein - Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here I sat, waiting--not for anything--\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Good and Evil, fancying\u003cbr\u003eNow light, now shadows, all a game, \u003cbr\u003eAll lake, all noon, all time without all aim.\u003cbr\u003eThen, suddenly, friend, one turned into two--\u003cbr\u003eAnd Zarathustra walked into my view.\" -- \u003cb\u003eNietzsche\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Gay Science\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cp\u003eEach individual portrayed in this book may, beyond his unique nature, be considered representative of one or several aspects of human nature and human striving, and for the obstacles such striving must encounter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoethe displays the struggle for universal moral, scientific, and artistic values throughout lifetimes, bridging and linking whole ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNietzsche is perhaps the representative of the new faculty of inspiration and the challenge to complement it by intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde represents the stage of soul development at which insight into the worthlessness of vanity and ambition dawns with the power of a purifying tempest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKafka represents those millions of people who are drawn toward the threshold of the spiritual world but lack the courage to cross it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEckstein, the great friend of Steiner's youth, is representative of the tendency to withhold esoteric knowledge from the majority of human beings and to keep it as a possession of \"the privileged few,\" an attitude that still prevails in certain occult streams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner worked to make esoteric truths public and showed ways toward a radically new knowledge of the spirit and a new mobility of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113775075463,"sku":"9781584201397","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/25aad8a235717675503bed0be6d71df2.webp?v=1732491837","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/representative-men-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}