Abstract

My cursory analysis, of the "esoterics" of a marginalized legacy or tradition of Western Literature as/and speculative Philosophy, discusses several so-called "Masterworks" of the Western Literary Canon in terms of a "German Mind," In the oeuvres of Dante, Milton, Goethe, and Nietzsche, as well as chapters devoted briefly to the philosophical or critical thinking of Hoelderlin, Heine, and Emerson, authorial-if-esoteric "transformative visions" and/or "edifying" contributions to Philosophy's "Enlightenment" project are herein discussed. These polemical readings will be introduced from the 'antithetical' perspective of a comparatist and comparative-philosopher---from a now six-millennial, fiterature-as/and-philosophy traditional critical mode: the "Indian-Mind." Its underlying critical perspective in the texts is that of the two major Eastern nondualisms: the Taoist/ZEN and Indian-Dionysial/Vedantist . Ida Shankara's esoteric nondualism of advaila-vedanta informs not only "amoralist" Eudaemonism in the literature , but also engages Heideggerian/postmodern Ontoexistentialisms out of an ecoethical "deep-ecology" and within my epistemic thesis/heuristic: That the exoteric discipline of Literature does serve in the "task" of exoteric Philosophy's search for Truth---but it "performs" this work---esoterically!