Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 23
Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft
The Central Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Life in the Present and the Future
Section of the Complete Works: Written Work: Published Books
First German Edition published 1919.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition 1919, and reprinted twice that year. 4th edition 1920. 5th edition 1961, reprinted 1976.
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:
Towards Social Renewal
Rethinking the Basis of Society
Paperback, 152 pages. Published 1999 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Completely new translation in 1999.
Towards Social Renewal
Basic Issues of the Social Question
Paperback, 152 pages. Published 1977 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Third edition of "Threefold Social Order", a revised and abridged version of "The Threefold Commonwealth". Reprinted 1992.
The Threefold Social Order
Paperback, 82 pages. Published 1966 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Revised and abridged by Frederick C. Heckel for this edition from the 1923 book "The Threefold Commonwealth". Reprinted 1972.
The Threefold Commonwealth
Hard Cover, 206 pages. Published 1922 by MacMillan.
Notes on this edition: Same as "The Threefold Social Order", "The Threefold State", and "Towards Social Renewal."
The Threefold State
Hard Cover, 201 pages. Published 1920 by George Allen & Unwin.
Notes on this edition: Same as "The Threefold Social Order", "The Threefold Commonwealth", and "Towards Social Renewal."
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.
The Threefold Order of the Body Social -- Study Series I
Addresses and Articles
Typescript, 41 pages. Published by Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain.
Notes on this edition: Introduction of GA23 reproduced here