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A six page paper which considers Hesse's novel Demian in relation to the increasing nihilism of the period immediately preceding the First World War, and looks at the argument put forward in the novel for the necessity and inevitability of war. Bibliography lists 6 sources
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philosophies which were so prevalent in the period immediately preceding the First World War, it is evident that these are issues which Hesse addresses very clearly in Demian. For example,
from one perspective the pre-war years could be considered as something of a Golden Age: if one looks at the apparently stable and secure society of the Austro-Hungarian empire, for
example, it is evident that the majority of the population would have regarded this era as exemplifying much that was positive about the period, taking little notice of political developments
in other regions until these were unavoidable. On the other
hand, one must also take into account the detailed and not always favourable analysis of social culture set out by writers such as Nietszche, with his savage critique of organised
religion and his promulgation of individual autonomy and the Will to Power. Challenging all the teachings of the orthodox church of the time, he saw religion as something which had
fallen into decay and degeneration, in the sense that the original principles which God had declared that humans should live by had been so distorted and changed through years of
religion being interpreted, or misinterpreted, by human beings that they were no longer valid.
Jung, Weber, Durkheim and Freud were overturning traditional notions of human behaviour, both individual and social, and searching for explanations of myth and
religion, the motivating forces behind social culture, and the relationship between the hidden and the overt. Jung looked towards the collective unconscious and the development of common archetypes in human
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