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A CLASSIC AND A FOUNDER
Revised and Annotated
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By Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1937
Revised and annotated by Frances Huessy, 2008
Online, CD, and soft cover, 144 pages.
This new edition of a 1937 pamphlet by Rosenstock-Huessy looks at science through the lives of Michael Faraday and Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. But this paper is not about electromagnetism, light, chemistry, and 16th-century medicine.
Rosenstock-Huessy instead builds his house of human social history on a foundation of Faraday’s research diaries and von Hohenheim’s groundbreaking writings – and on their biographies.
Rosenstock-Huessy’s choice in 1937 of these two figures essentially prefigures the relative prominence that chemistry, energy, medicine, and physics would enjoy across the next 70 years. He completed this work in the same year in which Out of Revolution was published. It is no accident that this luxuriant work is replete with Rosenstock-Huessy’s inimitable ability to connect human history with the power of the spirit, with literature, with science – with living, itself.
The 2008 edition presents a novel approach to making Rosenstock-Huessy’s work easy to understand and to explore. Numerous footnotes and an annotator’s appendix in the CD and downloadable formats provide live links to the Internet, enabling readers directly to access not only the source material Rosenstock-Huessy used, but also other relevant works.
The annotations and appendix also provide extended excerpts of items he only briefly mentions in the text; evidence of new scholarship relating to his ideas; and illustrations of the 50 forms of plant life that surrounded von Hohenheim as a child growing up in Switzerland. And finally, the original text has been revised for stylistic consistency and clarity.
This new edition is the work of Frances Huessy, the transcriber of all of Rosenstock-Huessy’s English-language lectures.
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This work is referenced in Clinton C. Gardner’s book,
Beyond Belief – Discovering Christianity’s New Paradigm
(White River Press, 2008).
See www.beyondbeliefgardner.com.