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Hermann Hesse and the Daodejing on the Wu 無 and You 有 of Sage-Leaders

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Author	Heilbrunn, Dan
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), the poet, novelist, man of letters, and painter, created characters who, like the Daoist sages, had many paradoxical characteristics. Some of Hesse’s characters manage their paradoxical natures well and, like the balanced sages, are able to be simultaneously changing yet stable, full of life but also empty, in unison with nature and the social world. Centered between interchanging extremes, these balanced individuals are carefree yet self-controlled, efficacious in their work yet seemingly inactive, and successful in sustaining leadership and power yet humble and non-obtrusive. These sage-like individuals, the ideal leaders presented in the Daodejing 道德經, will be the focus of this essay. Specifically, I will focus on the Daoist “hub and wheel” analogy, the concepts of wu 無 and you 有, absence and presence respectively, which are extremely important in order to understand the influence of Daoist philosophy on Hesse’s literary examples of sage-leadership.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	93
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15403009
Journal	Dao
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15697274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-12-23
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Hermann Hesse Daodejing Leadership Daoism Religious Studies Chinese Ethics Philosophy of Religion Non-Western Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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