Intercultural balance? To Goethe's West-Eastern Divan

In the poems and the prose of his West-Eastern Divan Goethe implements intercultural balance and dialogue in a way that forces the reader (of all times) to adopt this balance and dialogue by „sceptical agility”. The article shows this by means of five examples: three poems, the extraordinary front cover of the first edition of the Divan (۱۸۱۹) and the Hafis-Goethe-Monument at Weimar. The last one, ornamented with poems of Hafis and Goethe, was inaugurated in ۲۰۰۰.

کلیدواژه ها:

Goethe ، West-östlicher Diwan ، interkulturelle Balance ، interkultureller Dialog ، Hafis ، skeptische Agilität ، Leser ، Iran