The Reception of the Indian Thought by the Culture and Art of Europe of the 20th Century

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10.2991/icadce-18.2018.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Indian thought; European Culture and Art; Jaspers; Jung; spiritual culture; evolution; crisis; Hesse; Glasperlenspiel; Vedanta; maya

Abstract

The interest to the Indian spiritual heritage has been increasing since Europe has opened India at the Age of Early Enlightenment. In the Indian way of thinking, the thinkers used to see a source for renovation of the European spiritual culture. The ideas of the Indian world view give European culture and arts a supplement, a possibility to rebuild an integral wholeness. At the same time, it helps Europeans to see the world in a different way, to describe it in different terms that receives a new life and intellectual experience, prompts to go out the boundaries of own culture. The article concerns some figures of European Culture of the 20th century attached importance to analyzing of the Indian thought. It also describes some trends in development of European literature of this period connected with reception of the Indian spiritual heritage. The elemenets and terms of the Indian Philosophy, involved into the artistic process of creation of the literary images by Hermann Hesse, are the key-objects of the analysis in this paper. The passage of the famous novel “Das Glasperlenspiel”, named as “Indischer Lebenslauf”, describing the life of Dasa, is based on the crucial patterns of Vedanta philosophy.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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