Overview: Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in ScopeOf 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 Ba
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