The Resurrection of Thinking: Steiner's Anthroposophy & the Postmodernism of Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida & Levinas

By: Scott Elliot Hicks

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The first full-length text in any language to wrestle with the conceptual relationship between the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner and the French Post-structuralist thinking of Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and Guattari, and Emmanuel Levinas. Furthermore, the book is a living investigation of new ways of deactualizing and taking the first steps in spiritualizing thinking, perception, sensation, language, and willing. It is a direct demonstration of original spiritual research and creation, inscribed and readable by Intuitive Thinking and Moral Imagination in a vibrant, breathing experiment of the weaving together and opening up of living concepts. It is a sensible and supersensible cognitive-chemical experiment carried out and followed moment by moment one step beyond subjective, transcendental, and phenomenological research. The text operates in a neutral field, which does not try to interpret or critique, but rather opens up the direct perception of the concept plane and its new moral intensive fields, and the activities and events engendered there. This text brings Anthroposophy into direct contact with the most current elements of the evolution of world-thinking, using its life and light to illuminate the fresh notions in the most up-to-date philosophical thinking. The contents include: Part I – The Flashing and Rustling in the Stillness of the Woods – The Mysteries of Movement, Thinking and Perception Chapter 1: The Eye-World Stream: The Melting and Reorientation of Sight, Light, and Sensation Chapter 2: The Dance of the Others in Moral Space: The Dynamic Respiration of the Moving and the Still in Thinking Life and in the Will Chapter 3: Empty Skull: The Moral Call of the Threshold and the New Self Chapter 4: To the North Star and Back to Earth: Living in Pure Concepts and Finding My Own Space Chapter 5: The Implosion of Conscious Events and the Motion of the World-Human Part II – The Two Faces of Warmth: The Mysteries of the Void, the Will, and the Other Chapter 6: Building New Organs of Heat life Chapter 7: The Soul of Repetition Chapter 8: Extraction, Suction, and Negative Combustion in the Void Part III - Tongue, Tone and Fire: The Mysteries of Sound, Smell, Touch, and the Spiritualization of Language Chapter 9: The Vaporization of the Senses of Touch, Hearing, and Smell Chapter 10: Language and Warmth Chapter 11: Anxiety and Courage in the Instability of the Air Chapter 12: Culmination in the Real Meeting of the Other through Fire