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The scholarly province of Castalia is one of the great non-places in European literature. Yet the real utopia is the Castalia that will come after Castalia. In the final scene of Hermann Hesse’s 1943 novel,Das Glasperlenspiel, the Magister Ludi, Joseph Knecht, having left the ivory tower to teach and learn in the everyday world of other provinces, drowns in a mountain lake where he is swimming with his student Tito.
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Ullrich Kockel
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Kockel, U. (2010). Fifth Journey — Towards Castalia:To Re-Place Europe. In: Re-Visioning Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282988_6
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