- Tytuł:
- Paul Scheerbarts Das Perpetuum mobile. Die Geschichte einer Erfindung (1910) und Rudolf Steiners Anthroposophie
- Autorzy:
- Małyszek, Tomasz
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/559713.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2018
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Wrocławski. Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
- Tematy:
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Perpetual Motion Machine
anthroposophy
cosmology
moral technics
spiritual mechanics - Opis:
- „The Perpetual Motion Machine. The Story of An Invention (1910) by Paul Scheerbart And the Anthroposophy Developed by Rudolf Steiner” The article under the title „The Perpetual Motion Machine. The Story of An Invention (1910) by Paul Scheerbart And the Anthroposophy Developed by Rudolf Steiner” deals with the title blend of diary, digression and reverie. The author shows its potential and real connections with the leading thoughts developed by Rudolf Steiner, especially the ideas about the technological progress from different anthroposophical texts. The work by Scheerbart is described not as a document of the technical activity of the author, but as an expression of the spirit of the mechanics that was trendy not only among the supporters of the anthroposophy but also in the large segments of intellectuals. Steiner used to perceive Scheerbart and Wedekind in the context of the metempsychosis of their souls. Scheerbart placed his story about the Perpetual Motion Machine in the context of cosmological relations that are typical for Steiner and Fechner. The article refers to such works by Gustav Theodor Fechners as The Little Book Of Life After Death (1836) that is devoted to natural philosophy, psychophysics and the thoughts about the technics from the works of Steiner Practical Training In Thought (1909) and The Philosophy of Freedom (1894). The Perpetual Motion Machine is one of the ideas in these texts. In conjunction with Steiner Scheerbart can overcome the pessimism of the future that is described by Schopenhauer. The article shows Scheerbart not (only) as a supporter of the anthroposophy but (also) as a moral fantast. His cosmological thoughts are full of irony. That’s why Scheerbart can be considered a original visionary writer with tendency to cosmological and anthroposophical thoughts and not a visionary with pretensions to be understood as a part of any external system of ideas.
- Źródło:
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Orbis Linguarum; 2018, 51; 599-615
1426-7241 - Pojawia się w:
- Orbis Linguarum
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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