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Creative excellence from management: Insight from Indian Ethos |
Hermann Hesse, Life and Creativity A theme paper assignment |
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Contents
Introduction 3
Influence towards creativity
* Spiritual lineage 4
* Jungian psychoanalysis 5
* World War I 5
Works, writings and creativity
* Narcissus and Goldmund (Exploring the inner objectivity) 6
* Siddhartha (exploring self and worldly knowledge) 7
* Hesse on Music 7
Impressions and impact on society
* European view 8
* American influence 8
Learning for self 9
Hermann Hesse, life and creativity
Introduction
"When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." – Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
“Hermann Hesse”, the German poet and novelist, has explored the duality of spirit and nature and individual’s spiritual search outside the restriction of society in most of his creative writings in the form of novels and non-fiction stories. Several of Hesse’s novels depicts the protagonist’s journey into the inner self. A spiritual guide assists the hero in his quest for self-knowledge and show the way beyond the world “deluded by money, number and time”. The quest for the sublime knowledge through an ascetic life reflects the inner creativity in innumerable ways which are the crux of his novels like “Narcissus and Goldmund”, “Sidhhart”,” Demian”, “The glass bead game”. Hesse was awarded the Nobel prize...