Goethe's Faust and the Divan of ¿¿fi¿

This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe-s Faust and --fi-- Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors- respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets- Divans to compare important building blocks of their intellectual worlds.

Hiwa Michaeli, Free University of Berlin, Germany.