Continuing my commentary on the 36th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. In Steiner‘s pedagogy there are two major events, or milestones, in childhood development. Both indicate processes that culminate at that point, and both are referred to in Peter Staudenmaier‘s paragraph, though inaccurately. The first is the first dentition, or loss of the [...]
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 117
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 115
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Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 36: The curriculum at Waldorf schools is structured around the stages of spiritual maturation posited by Anthroposophy: from one to seven years a child develops her or his physical body, from seven to fourteen years the ethereal body, and from fourteen to twenty-one the astral body. These stages are supposed [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 106
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Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 33 of Anthroposophy and Ecofascism: Though Steiner tried to make inroads within working class institutions, his outlook was understandably not very popular among workers. The revolutionaries of the 1919 Munich council republic derided him as "the witch doctor of decaying capitalism." [Footnote: Cited in Peter Bierl, Wurzelrassen, Erzengel und Volksgeister: [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 102
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Continuing my commentary on the 29th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. Regarding Steiner‘s relationship to fascism two points should be mentioned. The first is the attack by Adolf Hitler on Steiner and Steiner‘s Threefold Social Order in 1921. Steiner‘s proposed social reforms were decried as "one of the many completely Jewish methods of [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 102
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Continuing my commentary on the 29th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. Regarding Steiner‘s relationship to fascism two points should be mentioned. The first is the attack by Adolf Hitler on Steiner and Steiner‘s Threefold Social Order in 1921. Steiner‘s proposed social reforms were decried as "one of the many completely Jewish methods of [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 100
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Continuing my commentary on the 29th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. I share Peter Staudenmaier‘s concern that "the threefold commonwealth" is not a good translation of "Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus." The most strictly accurate translation would be "The Tripartite Division of the Social Organism," but since that is a rather unwieldy translation the [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 99
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Continuing my commentary on the 29th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. Continuing to look at the origin of the concept behind Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order, I should note that Steiner’s thoughts had been directed to the questions of how to best form a social order by von Lerchenfeld’s question and the discussions [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 94
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Continuing my commentary on the 28th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. For Peter Staudenmaier to make the historical judgment that Steiner railed against France with "rhetoric which matched that of Mein Kampf" would imply that he had read a sufficient amount of Steiner and Mein Kampf as to be able to compare the [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 92
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Continuing my commentary on the 28th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier’s Anthroposophy and Ecofascism. Steiner‘s views on the origins of the First World War are complex, but flatly contrary to Peter Staudenmaier‘s claims included an acknowledgement of the imperialistic rivalry among the European powers, the unhealthy influence of fanatical nationalism – something Steiner opposed throughout his [...]
Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 91
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Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 28 of Anthroposophy and Ecofascism: Steiner was by his own account "enthusiastically active" in pan-German nationalist movements in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century.[Footnote: Rudolf Steiner, Mein Lebensgang, Dornach 1983, p. 144.]* He saw world war one as part of an international "conspiracy against German spiritual life."[Footnote: Steiner [...]
