The Animals and their Destiny

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The Animals and Their Destiny: A New View of Evolution

In an age of almost universal exploitation of nature for commercial ends, here is a voice of conscience speaking with compassion on the intertwined destines of animal and man. These seminal lectures invite the reader into a landscape of perception and insight which can engender a new moral imagination towards our evolutionary brothers, the animals.

About the Author

Karl König (1902–1966) was born in Vienna, in Austria-Hungary, the only son of a Jewish shoemaker. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1927, with a special interest in embryology. After graduating, he was invited by Ita Wegman to work in her Klinisch-Therapeutisches Institut, a clinic in Arlesheim, Switzerland for people with special needs. He married Mathilde Maasberg in 1929. Dr. König was appointed paediatrician at the Rudolf Steiner-inspired Schloß Pilgrimshain institute in Strzegom, where he worked until 1936, when he returned to Vienna and established a successful medical practice. Owing to Hitler’s invasion of Austria, he was forced to flee Vienna to Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1938. Dr. König was interned briefly at the beginning of World War II, but on his release in 1940 he set up the first Camphill Community for Children in Need of Special Care at Camphill on the outskirts of Aberdeen. From the mid-1950s, König began more communities, including one in North Yorkshire, the first to care for those beyond school age with special needs. In 1964, König moved to Brachenreuthe near Überlingen on Lake Constance, Germany, where he set up another community, where he died in 1966.

Additional information

Weight 18 oz
Dimensions 8 × 0.3 × 9 in
Author

ISBN13

9781897839072

Published

June 2002

Format

Paperback

Pages

195

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