Contents
Preface / vii
Introduction: Goethe and the Vision of Wisdom / ix
Part One: Focus on Goethe
Goethe and India / 3
Sisir Kumar Das
Goethe in the Europe of his Times / 19
Lothar Ehrlich
Unpeaceful Coexistences: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Goethe’s Faust / 32
Dirk Wiemann
The Other Science of Nature in Europe / 53
J. P. S. Uberoi
Goethe’s Method in his Engagement with the East / 85
Shaswati Mazumdar
Two Ballads of Goethe with Indian themes / 110
G. Krishnamurthy
The Significance of Hafis for Goethe / 126
Fereydoun Rahimi Laridjani
Goethe and World Literature / 145
Gertrude Durusoy
Ambiguity of World Literature: The dialectic of national and transnational conjectures in Goethe / 175
Abhay Mishra
lqbal and Goethe – A Note / 184 »»»
Anil Bhatti
Part Two: Other Contributions
The Quest and the Conquest: Alexander von Humboldt’s Concept of Science / 205
B. Subramanian
Anmerkungen zur Nietzsche-Rezeption in der DDR / 216
Wifried Skor
Goethe Society of India 