GA 18 · Writings

Die Rätsel der Philosophie in ihrer Geschichte als Umriss dargestellt (1914)

Riddles of Philosophy

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0180-X AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6105-7 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0182-4 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0180-0 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
9	1985	706	the publisher's online catalog
10	2023	804	the publisher's online catalog
	1985		AnthroWiki (German)
	2023		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

21 units in the printed table of contents, about 154,182 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1955.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
VORREDE ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1923	text	1242
VORREDE ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1918	text	1175
VORREDE 1914	text	782
ERSTER BAND: ZUR ORIENTIERUNG ÜBER DIE LEITLINIEN DER DARSTELLUNG	text	2800
DIE WELTANSCHAUUNG DER GRIECHISCHEN DENKER	text	12467
DAS GEDANKENLEBEN VOM BEGINN DER CHRISTLICHEN ZEITRECHNUNG ...	text	1253
DIE WELTANSCHAUUNGEN IM MITTELALTER	text	2411
DIE WELTANSCHAUUNGEN DES JÜNGSTEN ZEITALTERS DER GEDANKENENTWICKELUNG	text	9030
DAS ZEITALTER KANTS UND GOETHES	text	19633
DIE KLASSIKER DER WELT- UND LEBENSANSCHAUUNG	text	11617
REAKTIONÄRE WELTANSCHAUUNGEN	text	7606
DIE RADIKALEN WELTANSCHAUUNGEN	text	8389
Zweiter Band: EINLEITENDE BEMERKUNGEN ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1914	text	1284
DER KAMPF UM DEN GEIST	text	13658
DARWINISMUS UND WELTANSCHAUUNG	text	9806
DIE WELT ALS ILLUSION	text	12593
NACHKLÄNGE DER KANTSCHEN VORSTELLUNGSART	text	2508
WELTANSCHAUUNGEN DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN TATSACHLICHKEIT	text	4720
MODERNE IDEALISTISCHE WELTANSCHAUUNGEN	text	8396
DER MODERNE MENSCH UND SEINE WELTANSCHAUUNG	text	14574
SKIZZENHAFT DARGESTELLTER AUSBLICK AUF EINE ANTHROPOSOPHIE	text	8238

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	20 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	21 the site's completeness audit
Words served	152897 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.99 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA018/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1955 the source record of the served German

Printed units not served in German

Unit	Date	Why
Preface to the 1918 Edition

English

Served on this site

The Riddles of Philosophy (1973) the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973); AnthroWiki (English) AP1973

Translator	Fritz C. A. Koelln the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973)
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973); AnthroWiki (English)
Place	Spring Valley, New York the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973)
Years	1973
Pages	468 the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973)
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973)

As the witnesses print it

The Riddles of Philosophy (1973), Anthroposophic Press, Spring Valley, New York, 1973, 468 pp. the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973)
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Riddles of Philosophy*. Anthroposophic Press 1973 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0018/English/AP1973/GA018_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
The Riddles of Philosophy: Presented in an Outline of its History the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 18 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	contributors: Fritz Koelln	Witnesses differ: SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English)	2009	9780880107112	in copyright
The Universal Human the SteinerBooks catalog CW 18 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Gilbert Church	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1990	9781621510383	in copyright
The Riddles of Philosophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 18 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: David W. Wood, Fritz Koelln	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2019	9781732461345	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
AP1973	22	4, 2, 16	155	2, 1

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

1 printed unit is not served in German. the site's completeness audit
The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

Preface to the 1918 Edition: not served the site's completeness audit

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Die Rätsel der Philosophie in ihrer Geschichte als Umriss dargestellt (1914) (GA 18), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/18/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/18/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions AP1973.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_18
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_18 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA018/AP1973): data/steiner-ga/data/GA018/AP1973/00_toc.md · sha256 95650a354d2b17e1
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 8e30bc4a1fe46fea
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA018/ · sha256 a8132df1354d3565
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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