Karen Swassjan

Karen Arajewitsch Swassjan (Russian Карен Араевич Свасьян, scientific transliteration: Karen Araevič Svas'jan, poor Կարեն Սվասյան. ); Born January 2, 1948 in Tbilisi ) is a native of Armenia philosopher, literary scholar, cultural historian and anthroposophist.

Life and work

Karen Swassjan studied philosophy and English and French Philology in Yerevan and received his doctorate with a thesis on Bergson. In 1981 his habilitation thesis on the problem of symbol in modern philosophy. He was professor of philosophy, cultural history and aesthetics at the Yerevan State University. He also appeared as a translator into Russian and editor of Nietzsche's works ( the first post-revolutionary Russian Nietzsche edition ), Spengler (The Decline of the West ) and Rilke ( Sonnets to Orpheus ) out.

He is the author of numerous books on philosophy and anthroposophy, literature, culture and history of science, including one in the Russian-speaking widespread biography of Goethe, a history of European science and the work of Goethe's philosophy of life and of books on Nietzsche, Spengler, Husserl and Cassirer. There are also many German -language publications, in particular to anthroposophical topics.

Karen Swassjan was 1993/94 Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. In 1997 he was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck. Since 1993 he works as a freelance writer and lecturer in Basel.

Awards

  • 2009 First Prize in Essay Competition of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Works ( in German language )

Monographs

  • On the way to Damascus. For spiritual situation between East and West. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87838-967-1
  • The sacrament of man. For the hundredth anniversary of the " Philosophy of Freedom ". Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993, ISBN 3-7235-0710-7
  • The Karl Ballmer sample. With two essays by Karl Ballmer. Edition LGC, Siegen / Sancey le Grand 1994, ISBN 3-930964-80-5
  • Nietzsche - attempt at deification. Two variations on a destiny. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1994, ISBN 3-7235-0767-0
  • The downfall of a Westerner. Oswald Spengler and his Requiem on Europe. Heinrich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932458-08-7
  • What is anthroposophy? Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2001, ISBN 3-7235-1115-5
  • Anthroposophical curative education. On the history of a new beginning. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1206-2
  • Rudolf Steiner. A Coming. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2005, ISBN 3-7235-1259-3
  • Refurbished anthroposophy. A ghost ride. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2007; 2 ext. A. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7235-1324-8
  • The history of the future. Three essays. Publisher of anthroposophy, Dornach 2010, ISBN 978-3-03769-019-2

Editorship

  • Primary phenomena. Memoranda for Hinschauende ( with Georg Friedrich Schulz ). Geering, Dornach 1994-1998: Prelude: What we want. Testimonials, 1994
  • World power Rudolf Steiner, 3 volumes, 1995
  • The destruction of culture, 2 volumes, 1996/98
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