Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty

Front matter

Hiwa Michaeli Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Häfiz

Hiwa Michaeli Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Häfiz

Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty

Contents

Acknowledgement — V

On the Structure of Goethe’s Faust and Häfiz’s Divan and the Problem of Genre — 9

1.1.1 The Representation of Knowledge in the Beginning of Faust | — 17

II 11.2 11.2.1

11.2.1 11.2.2 111.3

Toward Life — 90

The Process of Turning Toward Life in Faust — 90 Reevaluations and Modifications — 90

Painful Walls of Exclusion — 98

The Process of Inclusion or ‘Wie kommen wir denn aus dem Haus? — 111

The Turn Toward Life in the Divan of Häfiz — 138 Nature in Persian Poetry ofthe Tenth and Eleventh Centuries — 139

The Space of Exclusion in Sa‘di and Hafiz — 141 Elements of Exclusion in the Sufi Tradition — 148 Spring as a Call for Reevaluation of Exclusion — 159 Diving into the Sea ofthe Wine House — 163

Anxiety in the Field of Critique of the Old World — 167 Mediation and Going Beyond Exclusion — 174

Toward Life in Goethe’s Faust and Häfiz’s Divan — 187 Space of Exclusion — 188

Elements of Exclusion — 189

Influence of Spring in the Turn Toward Life — 189 Anxiety and Leaving the Old World Behind — 190 Mediation and Inclusion in Paradox — 191

Colorful Reflections —— 193

The World of Reflections in Goethe's Faust — 193

The Activity of the Faculty of Appreciation of Beauty — 193 Within Life as the Space of Inclusion — 207

The Articulations of Faust's Views in the World of

Inclusion — 211

Faust's Rebirth in Anmutige Gegend — 223

Turning from the Sun to Its Colorful Reflections — 227 Exploring the Reflections in Faust's Path to Helena — 236 Lynceus between the Sun and Helena — 243

A Historical Account of the Pursuit of Beauty in Sufism —— 251 Emanation of Beauty — 269

The World of Reflections in Goethe's Faust and the Divan of Hafiz — 310

Beauty as the Object of Pursuit — 310

The Mediated Immanence of the Infinite — 311

The Communicative Aspect of the Infinite — 312

Contents — IX

The World as Diversification of Attributes of the One — 313 The Active Presence of the One in the Human Being — 314 Veils as the Medium of Disclosure — 316

Abandoning the Self and Rejoicing in the Multiplicity — 316