The Golden Blade 2005 Language: Symptom and Servant of Culture

The Golden Blade 2005
Language: Sympton and Servant of Culture
Edited by William Forward, Simon Blaxland-de Lange, Jan Swann and Warren Ashe

Amidst a political climate regarded by increasing numbers of people as socially dysfunctional and marginal to their needs and aspirations, there is a tendency today for semi-autonomous cultures to emerge: Language, however, represents a common cultural thread that both illumines our present s situation and enables us to transform it. The articles assembled in this volume examine our modern cultural predicament from the standpoint of Rudolf Steiner's research on the evolution of human consciousness. 

Contents
Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness by Rudolf Steiner
Crisis of Cognition as a Language Crisis by Martina Maria Sam
Awareness of the Time as a Perception of Reality by Christiane Haid
Owen Barfield: Harbinger of the 21st Century by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
'O, for a Muse of Fire' : The Imaginative Language of WB Yeats by Sean Byrne
Emily Dickinson and the Living Word by Coralee Schmandt
Language and the Priestly Task by Roger Druitt
An Improvisation on the Theme of Educational Intuition by Martyn Rawson
Icons by Martin Schmandt
Poems and Poetics by Paul Matthews
Thinking around the Mother Tongue by Emilie Salvesen
Notes on Translation, with special reference to the Works of Rudolf Steiner by Anna Meuss
Words and their many Guises – a Brief Sketch of Comparative Languages by Rene Querido

173 pages.
21 x 14 cms.
Paperback.