Truth and Knowledge

Title Page of the First Edition of Truth and Knowledge
Dedicated to Dr. Eduard von Hartmann

Rudolf Steiner's Inaugural Dissertation for his doctoral degree before the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rostock (Defense, beginning of May, 1891; Promotion, October 26, 1891) was titled Die Grundfrage der Erhenntnistheorie mit besonderer Rucksichtauf Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre, usw, The Fundamentals of a Theory of Cognition with Special Reference to Fichte's Scientific Teaching. When the thesis was published in book form, as it appears here in English translation, a Foreword and one chapter were added to the original by Rudolf Steiner. These latter are included in the present translation.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Rudolf Steiner's Wahrheit und Wissenschaft was published by Hermann Weissbach in Weimar, 1892 in a first edition of 1,000 copies.

A second edition of 5,000 copies was published by the Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach-bei-Basel, Switzerland, 1925.

A third edition of 4,000 copies was published in Freiburg i. Br., Germany, in 1948.

The fourth edition, from which the present translation was made, was issued by the Verlag der Rudolf Steiner- achlassverwaltung, Dornach-bei-Basel, Switzerland, 1958, and comprised 4,000 copies.

Thus, the four editions of Wahrheit und Wissenschaft published between 1892 and 1958 totaled some 14,000 copies.

In March, 1921 the first English translation of this work appeared in London under the title, Truth and Science, translated by Prof. R. F. Alfred Hoernle and edited by Harry Collison.