Books in the Collected Works series

This 12-volume set incorporates Robertson's final corrections and revisions for the four histories and the published sermon. Also included are miscellaneous writings and speeches by Robertson, and biographical and critical works about him taken from scarce pamphlets and periodicals.

Originally published in 1942 this book brings together contributions from some of the finest thinkers and philosophers of the 20th Century such as Boas, Croce, Einstein, Haldane, Mann, and Russell. The volume discusses the problem of Freedom from diverse points of view and offers a synthesis of issues and conclusions as a basis for action.

Originally published between 1921 and 1950 these volumes showcase many of the most important philosophical, political and literary works of Benedetto Croce. The volumes reveal private notes from Croce's meetings with Allied forces; explain the literature of Dante, Goethe, and Shakespeare; discuss the relation of individual morality to the State.

In what has been referred to as 'the most advanced course in anthroposophy', Rudolf Steiner addresses one of the great questions of our time: the role of evil in human development. He speaks of the year 666, when three time streams intersected - the familiar linear stream and two 'lateral' streams - and the reoccurrence of the 666-year rhythm in history. At the heart of this mystery is the being Sorat ('the beast'), who attempted to flood humanity with premature spiritual knowledge by inspiring the scholars of the ancient Academy of Gondishapur. Although responsible for the saving of Aristotle's works, Steiner describes how the Academy generated tremendous but dangerous gnostic wisdom, which eventually spread through the Christian monasteries and inspired Western scientific thought. Its immediate negative impact, however, had to be counteracted by the Prophet Muhammad and the founding of Islam. In contrast to the 666-year rhythm in history, the 333-year rhythm is connected to the healing forces of the Mystery of Golgotha. The year 333 was a central point in the post-Atlantean age, but also a pivotal moment in establishing the Christ Impulse and the new equilibrium it brought to humanity, allowing people to gain wisdom through their own efforts. Such wisdom enables insight into three key areas: supersensible knowledge of birth and death; understanding of an individual's life; and the ability consciously to confront the adversarial beings of Lucifer and Ahriman. Steiner addresses a host of additional themes, including occult Freemasonry in Anglo-American countries; materialism in the Roman Catholic Church; prophetic and apocalyptic vision; dualism and fatalism in pre-Christian times; and the delusion of time and space. Seeking to awaken his listeners to the urgency of the tasks ahead of them, he urges that spiritual understanding be enlivened with enthusiasm, fire and warmth of heart.

'Whatever turbulent outward events occur in the world, whatever form is taken by things seeking to work their way out of the depths of human evolution, we only really hearken to the true, underlying nature of these events ... if we observe the world from a spiritual perspective.' - Rudolf Steiner. In seeking to heal the many social crises of our time, Rudolf Steiner urges us to turn away from 'fixed principles, theories or social dogmas' and to rediscover the real nature of the human being. This inner reality - that cannot be understood in materialistic or deterministic ways - is the only basis on which society can truly be founded. But it is not sufficient to speak of well-meaning ideas, he says, unless we are also active in working for change; change that begins with each of us. In 1919, a year marked by strong social and political upheavals, Steiner was deeply concerned with questions relating to society. Having published a book on the subject (Towards Social Renewal), he embarked on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' social ideas. In addition to public lectures, however, Steiner sought to deepen the subject in a series of talks to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These lectures, gathered in this volume, reveal the 'inner' or 'esoteric' aspects of the social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize threefolding in the historical context of his time. Whilst Steiner's suggestions for social change may not seem self-evident to pragmatic thinking, they will strike a resonant chord in many who seek deeper answers to the social problems of our times - problems that politicians seem unable to remedy. Amidst the many themes tackled here, Steiner addresses the issue of nationalism as a retrograde tendency; the tasks of Central Europe and Britain in relation to the East; the incarnation of Ahriman in the West, and the historical incarnation of Lucifer in the third millennium BC.

Henry Fielding (1707-54) began his writing career as a playwright and produced a great number of comedies, farces and burlesques. Fielding practised at law, wrote essays and poems, journals and novels. This boxed collection of ten volumes includes all his work and a biographical essay.

This set contains all the famous philosophical works of John Locke (1632-1704), plus a biographical essay. All correspondence is placed together, and the non-correspondence items are positioned to follow the relevant works.

Cannan's name is linked inextricably with two great economic institutions: Adam Smith and the LSE. Cannan played a fundamental role in England in shaping the alternative to Marshallian economics that bore fruit at the LSE in the 1930s.

This edition contains all Bacon's philosophical works as well as translations, literary and professional works. Also included are introductions and explanatory footnotes, and a new introduction by Graham Rees.

Bagehot was one of the first economists in Britain to recognise the importance of the idea of development for social and economic theories, and was widely considered to be a great authority on banking and finance. Detailed contents available.

This edition of the works of James Steuart republishes Steuart's Works Political, Metaphysical and Chronological of 1805 and includes a seventh volume of critical studies of Steuart's thought.

This 15 volume boxed set is a reprint of the 1908 collected works, together with the first trade edition of The Picture of Dorian Grey. With a new critical introduction, and including Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.

Widely regarded as the founder of the modern science of demography, this set collects all of Petty's published writings in economics, an extensive selection of his correspondence, a biography and the most important secondary writing on his work.

Thomas Paine was an influential revolutionary pamphleteer, whose writings were instrumental in bringing about some significant political changes. This three-volume set includes his complete writings which also discusses the implications of his work.

The set includes major and lesser-known works and biographical pieces by Thomas Hardy. It will appeal to both Barnes and Hardy scholars, linguists and etymologists, social and cultural historians.

Important in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment and Eighteenth Century literature and thought, James Beattie was a figure of high reputation and influence. This is the first ever complete edition of Beattie's works.

Herbert Spencer was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age. This selection provides a cross-section of Spencer's work from his more popular and approachable essays and volumes of the Synthetic Philosophy itself.

Intended for postgraduates and literature academics, this text comprises the collected works of William Morris. It features the poetic works, prose romances and essays on art and politics as well as Morris' translations from the classics, early English, French and Icelandic Sagas.

This collection brings together major writings by Hobbes in English, including translations of some of his Latin works.

This 10-volume boxed set brings together Veblen's attempts at understanding the evolution of economic patterns in a wider social context.

The work of Joseph Fels Ritt and Ellis Kolchin in differential algebra paved the way for exciting new applications in constructive symbolic computation, differential Galois theory, the model theory of fields, and Diophantine geometry. This book assembles Kolchin's mathematical papers.

Translation of Mantrische Spruche. Seelenèubungen II 1903-1925 (Dornach, Switzerland: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1999).

'...This will generate a struggle covering the face of the whole earth. The one and only remedy for this nonsense being made of human evolution will be the path that can lead humanity to the spirit - the path of Michael, which finds its continuation in the path of Christ.' - Rudolf Steiner. Speaking in the aftermath of the Great War, Rudolf Steiner presents a series of extraordinary lectures on the power and mission of the Archangel Michael. He paints on a broad canvas - in the context of cosmic and human evolution - revealing Michael's tasks in the past, present and future. Originally the countenance of Yahweh, Michael has metamorphosed from a 'night spirit' to a 'day spirit'. As 'the Countenance of Christ', Michael helps us find a balance between 'luciferic' and 'ahrimanic' tendencies. The old 'dualism' (such as good versus evil), says Steiner, needs to be replaced by the trinity of Lucifer-Christ-Ahriman. Filling our heart with the Christ Impulse creates an equilibrium between the luciferic influence that imbues our head and the ahrimanic influence at work in our limbs. Rudolf Steiner describes how humanity faces three dangers in the social sphere: spiritual life could flow into the 'pit of mendacity' ruled by Ahriman, individual rights might descend into the 'pit of selfishness' (Lucifer), and economics into cultural sickness and death (Asuras). In order to prevent European-American culture from perishing, it will be necessary to turn towards contemporary 'threefold' social ideas. Steiner also speaks about the principle of metamorphosis in connection with evolution and devolution, as evident in the design of the pillars in the newly-built Goetheanum. Architectural styles are an expression of human evolution, as can be seen in Greek temples, gothic Cathedrals, the Grail temple and the building at Dornach. Amidst many other themes, Rudolf Steiner addresses the problem of natural necessity and freedom, and the abolition of the trichotomy of body, soul and spirit at the Council of Constantinople in AD 869.

'To live in truth, to wish to be true in one's whole being, will be the watchword of the future.' - Rudolf Steiner. In the midst of the lies and propaganda of the Great War, Rudolf Steiner struggled to convey the truths of the human spirit. The 'truth' asserted by partisan interests, he suggested, was invariably tinged with dishonesty - whether the outright mendacities of politicians and rulers (Steiner refers here to the machinations of the British Empire), or the manipulative techniques of secret societies, intent on securing and shoring up their own power. In relation to the latter, Rudolf Steiner highlights how, whilst we tend to reject overt authority nowadays, we succumb more easily to its covert forms in the 'received wisdoms' we often unthinkingly adopt. In seeking to help his audiences discern the spiritual struggle unfolding behind outer events, Steiner describes how the intrigues that led to the war were based on intentional deceit, which served hidden aims of which the public was mostly kept in the dark. In contrast to the divisiveness of untruth, truth is based on a realization of the interconnectedness of all things - of interdependence between the realms 'below' and 'above' us. The 'I', upon which all evolution on earth is predicated, signifies an overcoming of egotism and narrow interests, together with the imaginative embrace of all beings. Its spiritual reality - that descends to us from non-material worlds and towards which we evolve through earthly lives - is the epitome of truth. Amidst many other topics covered here, Rudolf Steiner speaks about The Qur'an and the Mystery of Golgotha; Henry VIII, Thomas More and the Church of England; the Jesuits and their State in Paraguay; Freemasons, esoteric symbols, and handshakes; Madame Blavatsky's occult imprisonment by Anglo-Saxon brotherhoods; Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; and the occult literature of Papus and Levi.

Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, was one of the foremost thinkers of 18th-century England in the field of economics, international relations, political theory and imperialism. These volumes form a comprehensive collected edition of all his important writings on economics and social theory.