Zusatz zu dem in voran gehendem Vorwort Gesagten für die Neu-Ausgabe von 1918
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DAS WELTBILD DES DEUTSCHEN IDEALISMUS
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Der Idealismus als Natur- und Geistesanschauung: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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Der deutsche Idealismus als Gedankenanschauung: Hegel
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EINE VERGESSENE STRÖMUNG IM DEUTSCHEN GEISTESLEBEN
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BILDER AUS DEM GEDANKENLEBEN ÖSTERREICHS
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AUSBLICKE
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HINWEISE
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The Riddle of Man (1990), This is the only known English edition, and was published by Mercury Press, Spring Valley, New York, in 1990. It was translated from the 4th German edition of 1957 by William Lindeman. Contents: the world of ideas, personality, national awareness / The worldview of German idealism / Idealism as a soul awakening: JG Fichte / Idealism as a natural and social perception: FWJ Schelling / German idealism as thoughts intuition: GWF Hegel / A Forgotten flow in German intellectual life / Pictures from the life of Austrian thoughts / Views. the edition's imprint line (GA020/MP1990)
Mercury Press, Spring Valley, New York, 1990, 167pp., translated from the 4th German edition of 1957 by William Lindeman the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Riddle of Man*. **CW 20**. Translated by William Lindeman. Mercury Press 1990, ISBN 0-929979-13-3 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0020/English/MP1990/GA020_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)
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Rudolf Steiner, Vom Menschenrätsel (1916) (GA 20), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/20/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/20/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions MP1990.