Categories: section for the literary arts and humanities

Generic image Painting by Christiane Haid

Dealing with values >>> ‘Parzival’ conference with Swiss premiere of ‘Parzival and Feirefiz’ at the Goetheanum

Empathy with the world around us, dealing with loneliness and acting responsibly are challenges we face today as human beings. Wolfram von Eschenbach anticipated them in his Epic of Parzival. The Humanities Section at the Goetheanum is exploring this early approach to dealing with acquired and developed values in the field of tension between East and West.

Generic image: 3D hologram of a human head (Photo: iStock / imaginima)

“Seductive Character” > Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities shows limits of transhumanism

The transhumanist concept promises perfection and holds out the prospect of the replacement of the human being by technology. The Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities at the Goetheanum is exploring this concept in terms of categories of humanness such as different aspects of the body, thinking, freedom, activity and mortality.

Alexej von Jawlensky: Variation Nacht. 1916 (Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel)

Paintings and Literature in Dialogue during the Christmas. ​The Goetheanum will be a guest at the Kunstmuseum Basel in December

The Kunstmuseum Basel has invited the Goetheanum to design two artistic evenings around the theme of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ as part of their ‘Dialogue at Christmas’: On the 4th and 18th of December, the visual arts and literature will come together.

Transhumanism (symbolic image; photo: agsandrew/istockphoto.com)

“Moments of Spiritual Creation”. ​Conference on transhumanism‘s image of humankind

The technology of the future promises liberation from the basic human experiences of illness, old age, and death. By downloading the consciousness of the human brain onto a machine, ‹immortality› will be attained. However, a person is more than a data storage medium: the human is above all else a creative being.