Rudolf Steiner Complete Works: Volume 170: The Riddle of the Human Being. The Spiritual Background to Human History. Cosmic and Human History, Volume I

The Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 170

Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte. Kosmische und Menschliche Geschichte Band I

The Riddle of the Human Being. The Spiritual Background to Human History. Cosmic and Human History, Volume I

Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society

First German Edition published 1964.

Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition in this arrangement 1964. Reprinted 1978 and 1992. Part One (9 lectures) first printed 1932 and reprinted 1934 as a book (Das Rätsel des Menschen trans. The Riddle of the Human Being) . Part Two (6 lectures) first printed 1933 as a book (Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte trans. The Spiritual Bacground of Human History). Lectures stenographically recorded by Helen Finckh. This edition based on her typed reproduction of her stenogram. This edition not compared against the stenogram.

Lectures in this volume: 15

1916-07-29 Dornach
1916-07-30 Dornach
1916-07-31 Dornach
1916-08-05 Dornach
1916-08-06 Dornach
1916-08-07 Dornach
1916-08-12 Dornach
1916-08-13 Dornach
1916-08-15 Dornach
1916-08-21 Dornach
1916-08-26 Dornach
1916-08-27 Dornach
1916-08-28 Dornach
1916-09-02 Dornach
1916-09-03 Dornach

English Complete Works Version: This volume has yet to be published in a Complete Works edition.

English Non-Complete Works Full Versions: There are one or more pre-Complete Works full-volume translations:

The Riddle of Humanity

15 lectures Dornach

Paperback, 218 pages. Published 1990 by Rudolf Steiner Press.

Notes on this edition:

Other English publishing history: Sections available

Sections of this German volume may have been published in English, either as stand-alone books, one-lecture pamphlets, or as part of a compilation. If there are any volumes listed below, then they have some percentage of this Complete Works volume in them. The amount could be as little as a part of one lecture (in a compilation), a single lecture or essay as a pamphlet. Or it could be a book that contains as much as 90% of the material in the source Complete Works German volume.

Memory and Habit

Sense for Truth, The Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Life

No Cover Available

Paperback, 58 pages. Published 1948 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..

Notes on this edition: Lectures of August 26, 27, and 28, 1916. No translator credited.

Studies in Therapeutics, Memory and Habit

3 Lectures from 8/26 to 8/28 1916