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Karen A. Swassjan *1948 in Tbilissi, is an Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

n philosopher, literary critic, historian of culture and anthroposophist

Anthroposophy

Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development...

. He is one of the best known contemporary philosophers in the Russian-speaking world.

Karen Swassjan studied philosophy as well as English and French philology at Yerevan State University

Yerevan State University

Yerevan State University is a university in Yerevan, Armenia. Founded on May 16 1919, it is the largest university in the country with 110 departments. Of its 3,150 employees, 1,190 comprise the teaching staff which includes 25 academicians, 130 professors, 700 docents , and 360 assistant lecturers...

, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...

and became a professor. He has translated and edited works by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

and Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler

Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West , published in 1918, which puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations...

into Russian, and has written numerous works on philosophy, literature, history of ideas and anthroposophy in Russian and German. In 1994/95 he was honoured by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic and funded by the German Foreign Office, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and others for the promotion of international co-operation...

for his work as a researcher and teacher. In 2009 he won the first prize in an essay competition organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science. Karen Swassjan writes and lectures in Basle, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, where he lives at present.

For more detailed information, see the German or Russian version of this article.

Major works

In English

The Ultimate Communion of Mankind: A Celebration of Rudolf Steiner's Book "The Philosophy of Freedom
Philosophy of Freedom
The Philosophy of Freedom, the fundamental philosophical work of the philosopher and esotericist Rudolf Steiner, focuses on the concept of free will...

", ISBN 0-904693-82-1

In German

Zur Geschichte der Zukunft. Drei Essays. Verlag für Anthroposophie, Dornach 2009, ISBN 978-3-03769-019-2
Aufgearbeitete Anthroposophie. Eine Geisterfahrt, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2007; 2. erweiterte Aufl.: Dornach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7235-1324-8
Rudolf Steiner. Ein Kommender, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2005, ISBN 3-7235-1259-3
Anthroposophische Heilpädagogik. Zur Geschichte eines Neuanfangs, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1206-2
(als Herausgeber) Louis M. I. Werbeck: Die Gegner Rudolf Steiners und der Anthroposophie, durch sich selbst widerlegt, Forum für Geisteswissenschaft, Wallisellen 2003.
Was ist Anthroposophie?, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2001, ISBN 3-7235-1115-5 Textauszug (PDF
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Das Schicksal heisst: Goethe, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7235-1048-5
(als Herausgeber) Karl Ballmer: Umrisse einer Christologie der Geisteswissenschaft. Texte und Briefe, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7235-1072-8
Der Untergang eines Abendländers. Oswald Spengler und sein Requiem auf Europa, Heinrich Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932458-08-7
(als Herausgeber) Max Stirner
Max Stirner
Johann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism...

: Das unwahre Prinzip unserer Erziehung. Einleitung von Willy Storrer, Nachwort von Karen Swassjan, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1997, ISBN 3-7235-0983-5
Urphänomene II. Die Zerstörung der Kultur: 1. Streiflichter / 2. Lichtblicke, 2 Bände, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1996/1998, ISBN 3-7235-0938-X / ISBN 3-7235-0942-8
Urphänomene I. Die Überwindung der Philosophie / Die Umwandlung der Theosophie / Die Erschaffung der Anthroposophie, 3 Bände, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1995, ISBN 3-7235-0975-4
Nietzsche – Versuch einer Gottwerdung. Zwei Variationen über ein Schicksal, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1994, ISBN 3-7235-0767-0
Die Karl-Ballmer-Probe. Mit zwei Aufsätzen von Karl Ballmer (Co-Author), Edition LGC, Siegen/Sancey le Grand 1994, ISBN 3-930964-80-5
Das Abendmahl des Menschen. Zum hundertsten Geburtstag der ‚Philosophie der Freiheit‘, Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993, ISBN 3-7235-0710-7
Unterwegs nach Damaskus. Zur geistigen Situation zwischen Ost und West, Verlag Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87838-967-1

In Russian

Растождествления, Evidentis, Москва 2006
О конце истории философии, 2005
Загадка истории философии // Русский журнал, 2002
Европа. Два некролога, Москва 2003
Становление европейской науки, Ереван 1990, 2-е изд. Москва 2002
Философское мировоззрение Гёте, Ереван 1983, 2-е изд. Москва 2001
Ницше, или как становятся Богом. Две вариации на одну судьбу, Ереван 1999
Освальд Шпенглер и его реквием по Западу // Освальд Шпенглер: Закат Европы. Очерки морфологии мировой истории. Т.1. М., 1993 (Вступительная статья)
Фридрих Ницше: Мученик познания // Фридрих Ницше. Соч. в 2 т. Т.1. М., 1990 (Вступительная статья)
Философия символических форм Э. Кассирера. Критический анализ, Ереван 1989
Иоганн Вольфганг Гёте, Москва 1989
Судьба математики в истории познания Нового времени // ВФ. 1989 № 12
Человек как творение и творец культуры // ВФ. 1987. № 6
Феноменологическое познание. Пропедевтика и критика, Ереван 1987
Голоса безмолвия. Рильке, Валери, Блок, Чаренц, Нарекаци, Гете, Ереван 1984
Проблема символа в современной философии, Ереван 1981
Эстетическая сущность интуитивной философии А. Бергсона, Ереван 1978

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