Spirit person
The spiritual man is a philosophical concept, in which someone from his spirit and his mind makes use. In German-language literature, the term Geistesmensch is used by Hermann Hesse and Thomas Bernhard , among others . In Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, the human spirit is distinguished (analogous to the separation of spirit and matter ) from the human being. In Thomas Bernhard's The Cheap Eaters , the spiritual man is distinguished from the mass man.
The human spirit at Hermann Hesse
In Narcissus and Goldmund , Narcissus, who stayed at home, embodies the concept of a spiritual person, in contrast to Goldmund, who has worldly experiences as a sensory person. The two concepts naturally do not appear in their pure form.
- “Narcissus is just as little a pure spirit person as Goldmund is a pure sense person - otherwise one would not need the other, otherwise they would not both swing around a center and complement each other. Narcissus can utter the brutal word of the saint and libertine, and in the end he can affectionately affirm the whole of Goldmund's life. "
- (from a letter from Hesse to Christoph Schrempf in 1931)
The spirit person with Thomas Bernhard
In the cheap-eaters of Thomas Bernhard of the spiritual man is in contrast to the spirit hostile mass man described as someone who makes naturally needed by his Spirit.
- "99% betray themselves already at the moment of the birth of the masses, so he. In any case, the spiritual man has to take up the fight against the masses at the moment of birth, to face the masses, to take on them, that alone legitimizes him as the spiritual man. Anyone who gives in to this crowd, even if it is in one single point, has given up as a spiritual man and is not a spiritual man. "
Web links
- Thomas Bernhard reads from 'Die Billigesser' (0:01:48 to 0:42:30), audio recording, recorded in Palais Pálffy , Vienna, on April 12, 1978 (Austrian media library)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Bernhard: The cheap eater. In: Austrian Media Library.