Simon Reakes

Simon Reakes

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Personal profile

Personal profile

My PhD project argues for the significance of practice-led Goethean landscape research, initiated and advanced by Jochen Bockemühl (1928-2020), Margaret Colquhoun (1947-2017), and Aonghus Gordon (b. 1955). Practice-led Goethean landscape research is a hybrid tradition whose intellectual genealogy can be traced back to the original work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) with subsequent augmentations from the work of Rudolf Steiner.
 
This PhD project argues for the significance of practice-led Goethean landscape, representing a significant development in the domain of Goethean science research across three key interrelated fields. By analysing and interrogating the tradition of practice-led Goethean landscape research initiated and advanced by Bockemühl, Colquhoun and Gordon, this thesis will make three contributions to scholarships relating to three concepts of “Goethean”, “practice-led” and “landscape” in turn.

Research interests

My doctoral research interests centre around the practice-led Goethean research tradition, a hybrid of Goethe's original work and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science. Specifically, I focus on the process of hybridization of Goethean research traditions, examining issues such as conceptual translation, boundary work, selective appropriation, and discursive integration. 

Teaching

As a senior researcher at the Ruskin Mill Centre for Practice, I teach on various adult education courses, including the MA in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, Goethean science courses, and teacher training programs. My contributions focus on Goethean inquiry, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, and spirit of place studies.

Educational background

  • MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education
  • PG Cert in Religious Experience

External positions

Trustee, Ruskin Mill Centre for Research

31 Jul 2016 → …

Keywords

  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy not elsewhere classified
  • Intellectual history
  • Landscape studies
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Theology & religious studies not elsewhere classified