GOETHE SOCIETY OF INDIA

YEARBOOK

1999 - 2000

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