The Crisis in the Life of the Artist

The Crisis in the Life of the Artist
ISBN 0-932776-12-4
40 pages, paperback $6.50

Steffen sees that the existential challenge facing all contem-porary artists is achieving true self-knowledge. This essay shows how Schiller and Goethe dealt with the dangerous separation of thinking, feeling, and willing, and how they achieve their harmonious reintegration. It then turns to questions such as how the artist in each of us can find meaning in illness and pain and lead us to healing.