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A five page paper looking at Hermann Hesse's last and most provocative novel in terms of its treatment of intellectualism in the modern world. The paper centers on the motif of the Glass Bead Game, and argues that it is impossible to play the Game as an intellectual discipline because its truths can only be glimpsed as brief snatches in the midst of real life. No additional sources.
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What does it mean? In particular, what is the significance of the game his protagonist Joseph Knecht uses to explain and synthesize the whole gamut of human creative and intellectual
expression? This paper will help the student discover what Hesses work says about intellectualism in the modern age. In its physical, most concrete form, Hesses game consists of "a frame,
with several dozen wires on which could be strung glass beads of various sizes, shapes, and colors. The wires corresponded to the lines of the musical staff, the beads to
the time-values of notes, and so on. In this way [the games inventor] could represent with beads musical quotations or invented themes, could alter, transpose, or develop them, change them,
and set them in counterpoint to one another. . . . A bare two or three decades later, the game seems to have lost some of its popularity among students
of music, but instead was taken over by mathematicians. For a long while, indeed, a characteristic feature in the Games history was that it was constantly preferred, used, and further
elaborated by whatever branch of learning happened to be experiencing a period of high development or a renaissance. The mathematicians brought the Game to a high degree of flexibility and
capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as physics measures processes in nature. the visual arts soon followed suit, architecture
having already led the way in establishing the links between visual art and mathematics. Thereafter more and more new relations, analogies, and correspondences were discovered among the abstract formulas obtained
in this way" (Hesse, 22-23). If the student has followed this so far, it would be possible to see how a person with a very broad-based intellectual background would be
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