Bead Game Research Articles

Institutional Crisis: State and Scholar in Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz

Institutional Crisis: State and Scholar in Hermann Hesse's <i>The Glass Bead Game</i> and Walter Miller's <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i>

Conscientisation in Castalia: A Freirean Reading of Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game

This paper considers Hermann Hesse’s novel, The Glass Bead Game, in the light of Paulo Freire’s educational philosophy. The Glass Bead Game is set in Castalia, a “pedagogical province” of the 23rd century. It is argued that the central character in the book, Joseph Knecht, undergoes a complex process of conscientisation. Knecht develops an increasingly critical understanding of Castalian society, questioning some of its most cherished assumptions while nonetheless deepening his appreciation of the beauty of the Glass Bead Game. He becomes less certain of his certainties as he grows older, and eventually decides to give away his prestigious post as Magister Ludi (Master of the Glass Bead Game) to pursue a quiet life as a tutor. Dialogue plays a key role in the development of Knecht’s critical consciousness. Freirean theory is seen to provide a robust framework for the analysis of key themes in Hesse’s text. At the same time, The Glass Bead Game is helpful in demonstrating the meaning and significance of conscientisation and dialogue for educational lives.

ŽAIDIMAS REDUKTYVIZMO IR ANTIREDUKTYVIZMO KAROLIUKAIS TARPTAUTINĖJE LYGOJE

Reductivism–Antireductivism: a Glass Bead Game in the International LeagueRytis Radavičius sp;

Theory-Jamming

Musical improvisation (or jam) suggested as a method of rigourous eclecticism required by the diffusion of communication theory.

Microbes of the soul

“Hermann Hesse has carried on his battle against these microbes of the soul in the field of literature. … He shouts to all of us the motto of young Joseph Knecht in Das Glasperlenspiel [ The Glass Bead Game ]: ‚… Advance, mount higher, conquer yourself! For to be human is to suffer an

Toward the Glass Bead Game: A Rhetorical Invention

The 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Herman Hesse, author of the 1943 novel Das Glasperlenspeil, or The Glass Bead Game. In that work, Hesse describes the Game as mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette [1]. He constructs a futurescape in which players of the Game are something like today's musicians, historians and mathematicians, all rolled into one. Institutions-in-

Toward the Glass Bead Game: A Rhetorical Invention

Toward the Glass Bead Game: A Rhetorical Invention

The glass bead game: archaeometric evidence for the existence of an Etruscan glass industry

Glass historians have long posited the existence of an Etruscan glass industry on the basis of artefact forms distributed within the Etruscan koine. Principally this has been the core-formed glass vessels known as stachelflaschen, whose distinctive decoration is unique to Etruscan contexts. Given an apparent independent European Bronze Age glass industry, with the most comprehensive archaeological evidence for it in Northern Italy, the possibility of an independent Etruscan industry also seems possible. The first chemical analyses of several stachelflaschen, a leech-shaped brooch slider and some, less diagnostic, Etruscan glass beads fromBritish collections are discussed here. The technology embedded in the chemistry of these artefacts suggests that a diagnostic Etruscan glass technology was used to make beads rather than the ornate vessels. Reference is made to the compositional results of glass from the cemetery of Magdaleska Gora in Slovenia. I N T R OD U C T I ON As part of a broader study of ancient glass from Italian contexts from ca. 1200 – ca. 200 BC, eighteen samples of “Etruscan” glass were chemically characterised using electron microprobe analysis. The samples were all taken from objects held in museum collections. Despite the poor provenance of a number of the artefacts, the forms include core-formedvessels andbrooch decoration previously attributed to Etruscan manufacture, along with less diagnostic beads. Previous arguments for the possible existence of an Etruscan glass industry have been strengthened by the demonstration of an earlier glass industry in Northern Italy (and elsewhere), using a distinct glassmaking technology (mixed alkali glass and glassy faience) defined by the analysis of material from the Final Bronze Age sites of Frattesina,Mariconda and Montagnana and middle bronze age and later (compositionally related) glassy faience and faience from Grotte Vittorio Vecchi and Vicofertile, Frabulino, Chiaromonte, and Poviglio. Given the sophisticated pyrotechnology of the Etruscan metal and ceramic

The glass bead game in the topic of classics

The reception of Baltic art history can be compared to an intellectual glass bead game; its depths are only unveiled after repeated rereading of related visual signs and the text composed of these ...

Hermann Hesse's Hegelianism: The Progress of Consciousness Towards Freedom in The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse's novels commonly represent characters' struggles through ideological opposition and conflict towards resolution. The majority of his critics attribute Hesse's interest in, and expression of, this struggle to his lifelong study of Eastern philosophy. However, Hesse's interest in things Eastern need not be taken as the exclusive determinant of the theme of individuation represented in his fiction. This essay argues that Hesse's predilection for elaborating the ideological crises and resolutions of his characters may also be interpreted as reflecting the Western, Hegelian concept of an Absolute Spirit that proceeds through exhaustive dialectical permutations before it becomes conscious of its status as the identical subject-object of history. The essay begins with an account of critical commentary on Hesse's knowledge and estimation of Hegel. Thereafter, the theoretical affinities between Hesse and Hegel are investigated. The essay concludes with a close analysis of Hegelian imprints in Hesse's final and most complex novel, The Glass Bead Game.

Understanding Hermann Hesse: the man, his myth, his metaphor

Tusken, Lewis W Understanding Hermann Hesse. The Man, His Myth, His Metaphor. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1998. xiv + 253 pp. $29.95 hardcover. In keeping with editorial intent, the more than two dozen books that have appeared in the University of South Carolina's Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature series are introductory studies of the lives and major works of prominent modern authors. These studies are more mindful of students and non-academic readers than of scholars and accordingly provide reliable information and judicious literary assessments rather than trailblazing analyses. Most of the books in this series serve this express purpose admirably and Tusken's is no exception. Such scholars as Joseph Mileck (1958,1977, 1978), Ernst Rose (1965), Theodore Ziolkowski (1965), Mark Boulby (1967), George W Field (1970) and Edwin Casebeer (1972) had amply informed American Hesse-enthusiasts of the sixties and seventies. A revision of Hesse to inform the turn-of-the-century generation of Hesse readers was overdue. It was Tusken's intent and hope that his book would serve that purpose: it was to afford an updated look at the evolving inner and outer circumstances of Hesse's life and the accordant evolving thematic continuum and evolving stylistic devices ofhis art. Understanding Hesse does just that. Given that autobiography is the very matrix of Hesse's art and that authorial intent and meaning are therefore paramount in interpretation, Tusken opted deliberately for a systematic biographical approach, a methodology exercised by many of the above-mentioned Hesse-pundits, but rarely as rigorously. Indeed, biography per se almost overshadows Tusken's application of biography for interpretative purposes. A three-page preludial chronology of Hesse's life and art is a harbinger of the prominent role biography is to play in Tusken's Hesse redivivus. The book's introductory chapter is a compact and quite suspensive recounting of Hesse's Pietist heritage, his troubled childhood in Calw, his painful formative school years in Goppingen, Maulbronn and Cannstatt, his apprenticeship in a machine shop in Calw and then in a bookstore in Tubingen, his basic isolation and early immersion in literature, and of his inauspicious marriage to Maria Bernoulli and subsequent retreat to a primitive farmhouse in remote Gaienhofen on the Bodensee. This pure biography is extended in chapters four and six to Hesse's rustic life in Gaienhofen (1904-1912) and to his politically, domestically, and psychologically difficult years in Bern (1912-1919). The rest of Hesse's inner and outer life becomes an integral part of the book's remaining nine chapters, each of which deals exclusively with one of Hesse's major works. All told, virtually half of Tusken's study is given to biography. Intent only upon Hesse's major prose works, Tusken, but for occasional brief asides, virtually bypasses Hesse's volumes of poetry, essays and shorter tales. The most significant of Hesse's traditional, unproblematic pre-1914 novels (Peter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, and Ro#halde) require and receive the least of critical examination, the enigmatic and much more challenging novels written from the First to the Second World War (Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Journey to the East) are accorded their merited more detailed and reflective attention, and The Glass Bead Game, Hesse's magnum opus, is actually scrutinized chapter by chapter. Tusken's modus operandi in each of his exegetic chapters is more or less identical: an appropriate common approach for tales that are arguably without exception metaphors of Hesse's inner and outer life. …

The glass bead game: Nuclear tourism at the Australian weapon test sites

In mid‐summer 1997, just as the United States National Cancer Institute was acknowledging that the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site may ultimately cause up to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer in people who were living in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian authorities were mooting the possibility that the Maralinga test sites in South Australia should become a tourist attraction. Some Aboriginal tribal leaders welcomed this proposed use when the £20 million pound ‘clean‐up’ being paid for by the United Kingdom government as some compensation for using the area for its weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s is completed. This paper surveys the attempts to clean up the site of UK nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, not least by attempting to vitrify vast tracts of desert.

A medical glass bead game

A medical glass bead game

The glass bead game

In 1943, the novelist Hermann Hesse completed the novel which represents the quintessence of his imagination and vision, and for which, three years later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel is Das Glasperlenspiel, or The Glass Bead Game. It is set some four or five centuries hence in a state called Kastalien. This state dedicates itself to the cultivation of scholarship, and the members of its ruling elite live in a quasi-monastic society and develop their minds by studying and playing the glass bead game. The twentieth century is regarded by them as an age neither culturally nor intellectually impoverished but without much idea of the role of culture; an age in which philosophy and literature were thought to be the greatest achievements of the era from the end of the Middle Ages. The scholars of Kastalien, on the other hand, ‘have for generations given the palm to mathematics and music’.

Poststructuralism, politics and education

Series Foreword Preface Introduction: Critique of Reason Poststructuralism and the Philosophy of the Subject: The Games of the Will to Power Against the Labour of the Dialectic Poststructuralism, Intellectuals and Postmodern Culture Against Alain Finkielkraut's Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and Postmodernism Foucault, Discourse and Education: NeoLiberal Governmentality Architecture of Resistance: Education and the of Space After Auschwitz: Ethics and Education Policy Science and Education in the Information Vattimo, Postmodernity and the Transparent Society Cybernetics, Cyberspace and the University: Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game and the Dream of a Universal Language Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: Politics of Difference or Recognition? Bibliography Index

Fictions of Germany: Images of the German Nation in the Modern Novel

Examines four 20th-century German novels: Afred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and Gunter Grass's The Flounder. Using plot summaries and translated quotations, this work establishes links between history and fiction.

The second wave of curriculum theorizing: Labyrinths, orthodoxies, and other legacies of the glass bead game

The second wave of curriculum theorizing: Labyrinths, orthodoxies, and other legacies of the glass bead game

Computer simulation of chemical equilibrium

108. The Great Chemical Bead Game requires no instruments and presents the concepts of equilibrium and kinetics more clearly than an experiment. [October and November Computer Series both inadvertently called number 107. Numbering restored by skipping 109 and calling January 1990 number 110.]

The Sphere and the Labyrinth, Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's

This major work by Manfredo Tafuri, one of today's most important theoretical historians and critics of architecture and urbanism, presents his critique of traditional approaches to historical investigation and criticism in penetrating analysis of avant-gardes and discourses of architecture. Tafuri probes lines between reality and ideology, gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, ways in which avant-garde reaches compromises with world, and conditions that permit its existence. Interweaving intellectual models and modes of production and consumption, Tafuri constructs an elaborate network of references, comparisons, and analogies that leads to an interpretation of history as an archaeology of fragments and interpretations rather than linear progression or compact block. In his methodological introduction, he states that historiographic work should set into crisis not only its subjects and their plurality but also historical project itself and critical operations and languages of history it employs. Sphere and Labyrinth charts an extensive itinerary from Piranesi to postmodernism. Piranesi, the Wicked Architect, used architectural language in ways that transgressed and destroyed traditional boundaries. The avant-gardes of twentieth century continue two major Piranesian themes, the limit of forms and ... violence done to forms themselves. Tafuri points out that what appeared to be possibility of affecting social and physical order through introduction of poetics of transgression, as in deployment of metropolis as mise-en-scene infuturist and expressionist theater or in encounters between German and Soviet avant-gardes in Berlin in early 1920s, emerges merely as aesthetic techniques, codified and self-referential. Dismantling and reassembling structure of ideology of avant-garde, Tafuri analyzes relationship between avant-garde and planning of three great world-systems: USSR on threshold of first 5-year plan; United States on verge of New Deal; and Weimar Germany in grip of Sozialpolitik. In 1970s, he observes, mechanisms of control and management of urban space clash with political reality. He examines work of, among others, Stirling, Rossi, Gregotti, Venturi, Eisenman, Graves, Hejduk, Argest, and Gandelsonas, and finds disenchanted avant-garde engaged in private dialogue with forms, intent on playing a glass bead game. Manfredo Tafuri is Chairman of Faculty of History of and Director of Institute of History at Institute in Venice. He is author of Architecture and Utopia and coauthor with Giorgio Ciucci, Francesco Dal Co, and Mario Manieri-Elia of The American City (both MIT Press paperbacks).

Beyond the Glass Bead Game: Human Dignity in the Law of Delict

(1988). Beyond the Glass Bead Game: Human Dignity in the Law of Delict. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-20.