The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
An accomplished intellectual questions the responsibilities of a life devoted to an isolated culture of learning. In the scholarly province of Castalia, Josef Knecht rises within a culture devoted to an intricate game connecting different branches of knowledge. Success brings questions about the institution’s relationship to the wider world. Hesse examines education, service, and the limits of intellectual achievement through a life increasingly concerned with responsibility.
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The Glass Bead Game
In the scholarly province of Castalia, Josef Knecht rises within a culture devoted to an intricate game connecting different branches of knowledge. Success brings questions about the institution’s relationship to the wider world. Hesse examines education, service, and the limits of intellectual achievement through a life increasingly concerned with responsibility.
Why read it?
An accomplished intellectual questions the responsibilities of a life devoted to an isolated culture of learning. Explore Intellectual Life, Responsibility and Institutions in this book.
Edition details
- Author / creators: Hermann Hesse
- Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 576
- Edition publication year: 2002
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Book Details
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 576
- Publication year
- 2002
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