The Harmony and Uniqueness of the Literature of the East-West Enlightenment

Abstract

This article discusses the common and unique features of Eastern
and Western enlightenment. Reflections are given on the ideological and
ideological movement widespread in the countries of Western Europe
and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, the literature that was
united and propagated with the ideas of this movement, i.e., the literature
of the Enlightenment. Analyzes of how the result of changes affected literature,
its importance and place today are given. The continuity of the
Enlightenment movement was established by the Jadidism movement,
the services of the representatives of the Jadidism movement for the development of literature and the development of the social system were
recognized and analyzed. The analyzes presented in the article are based
on the works of Cholpon’s “Eastern Light”, Lermontov’s poem “Spor”
(“Discussion”), the great German poet I. Goethe and Khoja Hafiz. After all,
through Hafiz, Goethe made a lifelong love for the whole east and finished
“Garbu Sharq Divan”. The article also classifies the common aspects of
the Enlightenment movement and the Jadidism movement that spread in
Europe in the 18th century. The fact that the Enlightenmentists want to
achieve the development of society not through revolutionary coups and
rebellions, but through the promotion of goodness, justice, and knowledge
is described in the works of the representatives of the Enlightenment and
Modernist literature.