{"id":60240,"date":"2024-10-02T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60240"},"modified":"2024-10-03T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:38:03","slug":"goethes-imaginative-journey-to-the-orient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/goethes-imaginative-journey-to-the-orient\/","title":{"rendered":"Goethe&#8217;s Imaginative Journey to the Orient"},"content":{"rendered":"Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the \"oriental,\u201d Indian, Chinese, and ancient Iranian or Persian-Islamic cultures.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIris Hennigfeld\n\n\n\nOne of the fundamental characteristics of Goethe's work is that he is able to establish a fruitful and, in this sense, \"true\" relationship with his literary and scientific predecessors and contemporaries, primarily through his own productivity but sometimes even by means of the greatest opposition (as in the case of Carl von Linn\u00e9 or Isaac Newton). Goethe often creatively reworked the intellectual fruits of his discussions and readings into his own poetry. A well-known example of this can be found in his early work: during his time in Strasbourg in 1770\/71, Goethe, i<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the &#8220;oriental,\u201d Indian, Chinese, and ancient Iranian or Persian-Islamic cultures. Iris Hennigfeld One of the fundamental characteristics of Goethe&#8217;s work is that he is able to establish a fruitful and, in this sense, &#8220;true&#8221; relationship with his literary and scientific predecessors and contemporaries, primarily through his own productivity but sometimes even by means of the greatest opposition (as in the case of Carl von [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9200,"featured_media":59408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8848],"tags":[11545,8798,11559],"class_list":["post-60240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-literature","tag-ausgabe-31-32-2024-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-40-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}