Description: German Gita : Hermeneutics And Discipline in the German Reception of Indian Thought, 1, Hardcover by Herling, Bradley L., ISBN 0415976162, ISBN-13 9780415976169, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US How did the Bhagavadgãtà first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgãtà around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: . Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, . Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and . Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the Bhagavadgãtà and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews.
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Number of Pages: 372 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: German Gita : Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Methodology, General, Criticism, History & Surveys / Modern, Hinduism / Sacred Writings
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Bradley L. Herling
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
