Series Editor's PrefaceForewordProloguePart I: Intellectual Biography 1. Childhood and Youth Abroad: Scholastic Success and Intellectual Curiosity2. Studies and Work as a Tutor in Vienna: The Basis for an Idealistic Overview3. Archivist in Weimar: The Philosophy of Goethean Natural Science4. Writer and Speaker in Berlin: The Free Spirit Converts to Theosophy5. The Path to Geotheanum: The Elaboration of Anthroposophy as Science, Religion and Art6. A New Era: The Wisdom Teacher's Move to Social Reform and Renewal of EducationPart II: Critical Exposition of Steiner's Philosophical and Educational Work 7. Goetheanism: The Epistomological Early Works8. Anthroposophy: An Overview of Steiner's Basic Teachings9. The Path of Cognition10. Cosmology: Emanation of the Spirit and the World's Evolution11. Anthropology: Man's Fourfold Architecture12. Man's Functional Threefold Structure13. Biography as Reincarnation and Destinal Chain ('Karma')14. The Four Temperaments15. Ages and the Development of the Human Person16. The Concept of Education17. The Free Waldorf School18. A School in the Spirit of Anthorposophy?19. The Waldorf Pre-School and the Anthroposophical Curative EducationPart III: The Reception and Influence of Steiner's Work 20. Anthroposophy as a Philosophy Without Boundaries21. Anthroposophy as the Return of Mythical Thought Within Science22. Anthroposophy - A Modernized Form of Gnosis23. The Free Waldorf School: A School of Classic Progressive Education?24. Between Prohibition and Continuation as Experimental State School: The Ambivalent Interest of NSDAP in Waldorf School Practice25. The Importance of Waldorf Pedagogy for State Schools26. Waldorf Schools: The Dubious Character of their Fundamentals and the Prerequisites of their Success27. Learning from the Waldorf Schools - A New Dialogue and its ThemesPart IV: The Relevance of Steiner/Waldorf Schools Today 28. The Global Success of Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy29. How Successful are Waldorf Schools? - Evaluation Studies30. What do Waldorf Pupils do after Graduation and how do they see their School in Retrospect? - Alumni Studies31. How do Teachers and Pupils View the Waldorf School? - Attitude Studies32. Class Teacher-Pupil Relationships at Waldorf Schools - A Current Research ContributionEpilogueBibliographyGlossaryIndex

This series provides accounts of the work of seminal thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions, exploring the contribution and significance of the thinker’s central ideas and arguments and their relevance to educational thought today. With each book written by a leading philosopher in education, these volumes are definitive companions for students of education and the philosophy of education.The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.