Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Allameh Tabatabai University. Studied philosophy, oriental studies and religion (Tehran and Bonn)
Abstract
Martin Heidegger considers poets and thinkers as saviors overcoming the crisis caused by modern technology. According to him, this crisis arises from subjective thought. They are the ones who have their relationship with objects, earth and sky, etc. based on avoiding subjective thought. Seyyed Ahmed Fardid, a contemporary Iranian thinker, has considered avoidance of thinking based on subjectivity in Heidegger's philosophy as equivalent to “slickness or cunning” [rendi] in Iranian mystical culture. He believes that Hafez has well outlined the characteristics of this path. Hafez is the bilateral point of balance of the Dionysian and Apollonian cultural trends in Iranian culture.
