These reflections originate in an encounter I had with Mary Douglas in the mid‐1980s, when she had a regular visiting appointment at my university. Arriving at my office for the first time one day ...before we headed to lunch together, she paused at the threshold to take in the wall of volumes before her and exclaimed “My favorite book!” before making a beeline for the one item in my Douglas collection that you are probably not picturing. The book she singled out was Rules and Meanings (hereafter R&M), a compilation claiming “philosophical forebears for a course of anthropology that I like to teach” (9). Published in 1973, R&M is subtitled The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge, Selected Readings. This anthology's 319 pages comprise forty‐five selections by thirty‐four different authors from anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, and more, including a few surprises: for example, writings by someone identified only as “Mrs Humphry” (author of Manners for Women, a 1897 etiquette guide), by the avant‐garde composer John Cage, and by the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Hermann Hesse, whose works (e.g., Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game) were 1960s countercultural best sellers.
Veneration and revolt Stephenson, Barry
Veneration and revolt,
c2009, 2009, 2009-02-24, Letnik:
33
eBook
One of the most widely read German authors in the world, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. After his death, his novels enjoyed a revival of popularity, becoming a ...staple of popular religion and spirituality in Europe and North America. Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism is the first comprehensive study of the impact of German Pietism (the religion of Hesse's family and native Swabia) on Hesse's life and literature. Hesse's literature bears witness to a lifelong conversation with his religious heritage despite that in adolescence he rejected his family's expectation that he become a theologian, cleric, and missionary. Hesse's Pietist upbringing and broader Swabian heritage contributed to his moral and political views, his pacifism and internationalism, the confessional and autobiographical style of his literature, his romantic mysticism, his suspicion of bourgeois culture, his ecumenical outlook, and, in an era scarred by two world wars, his hopes for the future. Veneration and Revolt offers a unique perspective on the life and works of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.
“The Poet & I: Music to the Words of Hermann Hesse” is a suite consisting of eight musical adaptions of Hermann Hesse poems. Hesse was the renowned twentieth-century German author and Nobel Prize ...winner. I selected and/or commissioned English translations that specifically resonated with me. Each individual movement represents an auto-biographical glimpse into my life during a period of loss and contemplation. The eight poems include: “In the Mists,” “When Falling Asleep,” “Lying in Grass,” “Lament,” “Stages,” “Truncated Oak,” “Hold Me by the Hand,” and “Happiness.”The suite was composed for jazz piano trio featuring a female vocalist. All members should be comfortable improvising. Some of the improvisations require familiarity expanding upon melodic fragments or improvising within the confines of specific instructions, techniques often associated with free and contemporary jazz.Great attention was given to the rhyme scheme in each translation. This, referred to as “singable text,” allowed me to create symmetry using intervals, consonance and dissonance, harmony/chords, dynamics and form. Other equally important compositional considerations included the use or avoidance of repetition, and where and when to incorporate improvisation.My focus was heavily on composing music that reflected the literal meaning of Hesse’s text. Repetition does not appear in the selected poems. As a result, there is minimal use of repetition in the eight compositions. I also avoided using traditional song forms in the program. This resulted in what I refer to as a “flow,” as it relates to Eastern philosophy. Another distinguishing feature of the compositions is the use of non-traditional harmony together with functional harmony, which resulted from giving consonance and dissonance at key points throughout the poems more significance than harmonic movement. Improvisation was primarily used to provide a brief pause before the arrival of new material, or where I felt it best enhanced the text. It is, however, an essential part of the compositions.
Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse’s stories inspired a nonconformist yearning for universal values to supplant fanaticism in all its ...guises. He reenters our world through Gunnar Decker’s biography—a champion of spiritual searching in the face of mass culture and the disenchanted life.
Of all the great Western novelists of the twentieth century, the German writer Hermann Hesse is arguably one of the most important for educationists. Paying particular attention to Hesse's last ...novel, The Glass Bead Game, and its immediate predecessor, The Journey to the East, this book suggests that Hesse was a man of the West who turned to the idea of 'the East' in seeking to understand himself and his society. From these later texts a rich, complex theory of educational transformation emerges. From West to East and Back Again examines the role of dialogue and uncertainty in the transformative process, considers utopian and ritualistic elements in Hesse's work, and explores the notion of education serving as a bridge between life and death. Hesse's novels address philosophical themes and questions of enduring significance, and this book will appeal to all who share an interest in human striving and growth.
Sound Systems Farber, Thomas
Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii. 1989),
01/2020, Letnik:
32, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
A feat both unremarkable to us and very recent in the 3,000 millennia of Homo sapiens. ...one hundred and fifty years ago, every man-made tone was a one-off. ...humans have come up with microphones / ...batteries / electronic circuitry / padding to create noise cancelling / noise masking. No surprise: in The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen writes that "save for the wind and the waves, ours was a silent planet" during the "nearly eternal preamble to animal life."
Siddhartha was written by German Philosopher, Hermann Hesse. The novel is based on the life sequences of Buddha. Siddhartha is the Protagonist in the novel whose life underwent on deconstructive ...circumstances. Siddhartha searched for self-realization for attaining salvation in his entire life. He did never get where he searched for, but he had gained it at the quiet contradictory event. He did never catch awakening from whom he expects, but from completely converse person. With regard to the ‘seed message’ of Siddhartha, Leary and Metzner infer that we can think of seed, we can reference a seed, be guided to seed, but cannot know a seed through language, even though through language we learn about the seed. They thereby pick up on the rift between learning and knowledge prevalent in Siddhartha. In so doing, they point in particular to the role of language in shaping this rift, for language, the tool used to teach and learn that a seed exists in the first place, cannot be used to know the seed. This tension with the efficacy of paradox language is highlighted in the very last chapter of Siddhartha.
In the last hours of school on a Friday in late March 2020, we received the news that we would not be coming back for two weeks. COVID-19 cases were climbing in Pennsylvania, and we were sent home ...not knowing if or how we would return for the last two months of classes. After those initial two weeks, the state's decision was made to keep us virtual for the rest of the year. Students are similar in their quick and righteous disregard for those who are wasting their time. But here's the thing about a lesson plan: it's just a boundary, a map to follow. Sure, there are topographical lines to trace and note, but what happens between those lines is the beautiful part of teaching. The unknown, the amalgamation of curriculum and critical thinking and humanity. There's a mystery that gets to be uncovered in each lesson. There's something to learn and to discover.
Abstract Although Hermann Hesse is perceived by his readers mainly as a prose writer, Pawel Moskala discloses Hesse's other face, and draws his attention to Hesse's poetry. The author, analyzing the ...theme of death in Hesse's poetry in various periods of his writing, concentrates on the evolution of poet's attitudes, from existential-subjective to reflective. 34 Diese Überzeugung von der immerwährenden Wiedergeburt äußert Hesse auch unter anderem in folgenden Gedichten: "Ländlicher Friedhof (Januar 1915): "Trüber Rauch nur ist der Traum vom Tod, / Unter dem des Lebens Feuer lohnt", ,Auch die Blumen" (08.05.1916): "Und wie die Blumen sterben / So sterben auch wir / Nur den Tod der Erlösung / Nur den Tod der Wiedergeburt", "Alle Tode" (Dezember 1919): "Alle Tode bin ich schon gestorben / Alle Tode will ich wieder sterben / Sterben den hölzernen Tod im Baum / Sterben den steinernen Tod im Berg", "Erster Schnee" (Dezember 1919): "Wie viel bittre Tode starb ich schon! / Neugeburt war jedes Todes Lohn", "Media in vita" (15.02.1921): "Doch wisse: überall bist du nur Gast / Gast bei der Lust, beim Leid, Gast auch im Grab - / Es spielt dich neu, noch eh du ausgeruht / Hinaus in der Geburten ewige Flut" bzw. PAWEL MOSKALA Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Pawel Moskala, PhD, graduated from German Studies of the Jagiellonian University in 2006, and since 2008 he has worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of German-language Literature.
In a Mirror Dimly… is an autobiographical work that follows my mental development from my teen years into my mid-20s and offers a way forward into the future. First comes legalism: a canon, which ...represents a rule-based thought process. Next is freedom and individuality: indeterminate methods and textures. Finally, the piece concludes with unity and wholeness, using quoted and composed hymns in chorale settings. The conceptual content is taken from Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, a story of a Hindu man’s life through the development of his own ideology into Buddhism. He begins by following the rules of his faith obsessively, then he decides that the rules themselves don’t matter as much as the spirit behind them, and finally he begins to see the interconnectedness of nature through the flow of a river and gains a fuller picture of all that is. I have also included an anxiety motif which begins as an interruption or nuisance; it then takes over in the form of a panic attack but is quelled by a hymn: “Be Still My Soul,” with text written by Katharina von Schlegel set to the tune of Sibelius’ Finlandia. Finally, the anxiety is contained and molded to help the overall texture rather than disrupting it. The anxiety is never truly eradicated, but it is transformed.
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