Attitude towards Eastern poetic traditions and value system in the European literary environment

Abstract

Since the beginning of the civilization the East has always been regarded as the cradle of science, culture, literature and music across the world. In this regard, the West has always been interested in the East and the processes occuring there. As early as the 19th century, the West became interested in the Eastern way of thinking and laid the foundations for new philosophical and literary artistic researches that foretold the future synthesis of these two civilizations. The great geniuses, philosophers and thinkers of the West, such as F. Bondeshtt, Voltaire, Y. Goethe and Nietzsche, who laid the foundation of this unity, in their works, conveyed their interesting ideas about Eastern culture, way of thinking, traditions, mentality, cuisine, and geography to readers in the form of books by transcribing their notes from different years.