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An Integral Constructive View of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

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From: Constructivism in the Human Sciences
Date: 20020101
Author:Marquis, Andre

Introduction

Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other... [they] strangely enough perceived only half of what I Intended. .. the story of the Steppenwolf pictures disease and crisis - but not one leading to death and destruction, on the contrary: to healing.

(Hesse, 34 years after Steppenwolf was published, vii-viii)

The themes of "integral constructivism" (Mahoney & Marquis, 2002; Marquis, Holden, & Warren, 2001) jump out of the pages of Hesse's 1927 classic and organize themselves. In the following passages, Hesse ...

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