Tag: Hesses

Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game — The Future of an Illusion

Famous for announcing in 1882 “God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!”[1] in 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche also famously lamented, “Almost two thousand years and not one new god!”[2] In order for a new god to emerge, the old god had to be dead and buried....