Abrams, M.H., 92, 239n8 Abraxas, as symbol in Demian, 93–96, 109, 112, 166 adolescence, 26, 34–35, 56, 72–73, 112, 149–52, 177, 182, 220 aestheticism, 4, 53, 92, 234n19, 236n36; family response to, 59–61; in Peter Camenzind, 63–70 Albertus Magnus, 5, 109, 140, 184 alchemy, 44, 108, 196 Andrea, Johannes Valentius, 5, 83, 118, 197, 261n18 apocalypticism, 6; in Demian, 93–111. See also chiliasm Ardnt, Johann, 4–6, 43, 85, 195, 240n38 Arnold, Gottfried, 5, 44, 80, 101–3, 195, 240n41, 250n50 Augustine, 48, 94, 187, 198 autobiography, 6, 45–46, 67 Baaten, Heta, 224n2 Bach, J.S., 111, 171, 194–97 Bad Boll, 24, 28, 31–33, 86, 117, 121, 158, 224n10 Ball, Hugo, 37, 54, 86, 162, 230n12, 237n25, 238n45, 239n15, 250n63 Barth, Christian Gottlob, 15, 117, 121 Basel, 3, 24, 34, 36, 39–41, 53, 63, 71, 117, 156, 182, 212, 227n29, 255n45 Bauer, Rector Otto, 13 Baumgartner, Ekkehart, 255n36 beauty, 40, 47, 53, 63–65, 85, 88, 162. See also Schöne becoming/being, 103, 109–10, 137, 199–200, 247n15, 251n70 Bengel, Albrecht, 6–7, 13–16, 82–83, 92, 101–2, 105, 120; and The Glass Bead Game, 89, 193–97, 208–9, 262n54 Benjamin, Walter, 175 Berger, Peter, 140, 219 Bible, 3, 30, 36, 63, 70, 84, 97, 122, 141, 193, 197, 199, 245n30, 263n64 Bildung (education), 13, 16, 45, 87, 95–95, 175, 206–7, 226n23, 264n85 Bildungsroman, 45–46, 206 Bilfinger, Rector, 197–98 Blumhardt, Christoph, 15, 24, 28, 31– 32, 117, 229n35 Blumhardt, Johann Christoph, 24, 117–18, 121 Böhme, Jacob, 6, 18, 66, 80–81, 92, 101, 134, 137; and Christoph Oetinger, 195–200, 225n9, 247n17, 249n43, 261n26 Böttger, Fritz, 34, 66, 80, 236n14 Boulby, Mark, 66, 74, 93, 107, 116, 196, 223n9, 236n8, 238n45, 261n14 bourgeoisie, 18–20, 169, 226n23 bourgeois society, 20–21, 34, 73–75, 80–82, 86, 91, 108, 118, 157; in Steppenwolf, 162–70 Boyle, Nicholas, 120 breaking the will, 28–29, 67; in Beneath the Wheel, 158; in Steppenwolf, 146–71 Brecht, Martin, 41 Buddhism, 129–35, 142–43, 248n37, 252n74 Burkhardt, Jacob, 116 277 Index Cabbala, 13, 196, 199, 261n26, 262n54 Cain, in Demain, 94–102 calling, 19, 56, 153, 156, 200, 260n32 Calw, 3–5, 9, 15, 39, 65, 70–71, 80, 117–18, 121, 171, 193, 196, 208, 219 Cannstatt, 24, 32, 34, 39, 154 Castalia, 12, 88, 103, 186, 194, 205–14, 262n59 Catholic church, 54–55, 174, 241n50, 242n77 Cheong, Kyung Yang, 243n81 childhood, Hesse’s, 27, 34, 76, 78–79, 96, 107, 111, 121, 132, 153, 158, 162, 219 chiliasm 5–6, 14, 42, 97–98, 101–2, 121; in Demian, 92–93, 97, 104–5, 240n29 Chopin, Frédéric, 58–59, 63 Christ, 43, 46, 48, 66, 146–47; in Demian, 95–98, 105, 108, 242n56, 257n20; in The Glass Bead Game, 212–13; Hesse’s view of, 28, 35–37, 200, 235n27, 252n73 Church, state of, 54, 79, 93, 100, 118– 23 Classen, Johannes, 6, 80–81, 134, 224n5, 241n48, 255n29 confession, 3, 6, 103, 124, 125, 202; in Pietism 42–45, 136 confessional impulse, 63, 146, 150, 161, 218, 233n5 conscience, 37, 88, 93, 103, 107, 148, 169, 202, 210–11, 245n35, 263 nn. 71, 73 conventicle, 3–7, 118, 123; in Beneath the Wheel, 78 Cremerius, Johannes, 218–21 cultural decline, 16, 19, 26, 34, 82, 118, 146; in Demian, 91–95, 100; in The Glass Bead Game, 205–8; in Steppenwolf , 170 cultural memory, 76, 87, 185–88, 206 Dada, 162–63 daemon, 47, 61, 94, 159. See also Eigensinn dance, 48, 99, 149, 158; in Steppenwolf, 163, 168–72 decadence, 19, 58–59, 65, 69–70, 74– 75, 91, 208, 226n23, 236n36. See also bourgeois society Derrida, Jacques, 259n25 despair, 45, 64, 72, 92, 135, 147–48, 156, 166, 198, 239n8, 243n89 disobedience. See theft divided self, 94, 164 divine seed, 42–43, 46, 124, 134, 141– 42, 246n10 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 113, 239n13 dualism, 93, 171, 248n33, 257n20 ecumenism, 118, 133, 140–41, 218 egg, as symbol in Demian, 95 Eigensinn (self will), 145, 152–55, 173, 200, 204, 255n34 elitism, 11–13, 15, 100–5, 205–7. See also Castalia; Immortals Enlightenment, 8, 14, 41, 43, 119, 139, 194, 225n9, 262n44 Erscheinungen (apparition), 200 Erweckungsbewegung (revival), 4, 117 eschatology, 98, 100, 104, 119 fatherland, 119, 245n35 father–son conflict, 24, 28, 32, 37, 59, 61–62 “fever muse,” 60–61...