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Mapping channels between Ganges and Rhein : German-Indian cross-cultural relations / edited by Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Germany--Relations--India--Congresses.
- Germany.
- India--Relations--Germany--Congresses.
- India.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Middlesex : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Summary:
- From the middle ages to the twenty-first century, India has held a fascination in the German imagination, not only as geographical location, but also as a philosophical and spiritual concept. Similarly, India has long held an interest in German language and culture, including wide recognition of several German authors, philosophers, and Indologists. This cross-cultural interest between the Indian subcontinent and the German-speaking world has manifested itself in literature, linguistics, the performing arts, religion, philosophy, history, politics, and many other fields. Concepts and names that mark some of the channels of exchange and communication between the two cultures include Balthasar Sprenger, Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg, Kalidasa's Sakuntala, Herder, the Schlegel brothers, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heine, Nietzsche, Max Muller, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore, the ideology of the "Aryan," Subhash Chandra Bose and his affiliation with Hitler, Gandhi, Annemarie Schimmel, Gunter Grass, and others. In recent years, Orientalist Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Intercultural German Studies, and Transnational Studies have given new impetus and directions to the interest in Indo-German relations. The aim of this book is to achieve an overview over the current state and trends of research in this field.
- Contents:
- Part I Surveying Indology
- 'German Diligence and German Profundity': The Institutionalization of Sanskrit Studies in Prussian Universities, 1818-1830 / Nicholas A. Germana 14
- The Whitney-Muller Conflict and Indo-German Connections / Douglas T. McGetchin 29
- Friedrich Max Muller-Vedic 'rsi' or untouchable mleccha ... or ...? / Kamakshi P. Murti 51
- Part II Philosophical Borders
- The Problem of Action in the Early German Interpretation of the Bhagavadgita / Bradley L. Herling 82
- Does Monism do Ethical Work? Assessing Hacker's Critique of Vedantic and Schopenhauerian Ethics / Douglas L. Berger 107
- Part III Mapping Literary Currents
- India/Sri Lanka, the Holocaust, and the European Gaze in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Jeanette Lander's Jahrhundert der Herren / Petra Fachinger 120
- India meets Berlin: An Approach to Alfred Doblin's Indian Epic Manas / Ursula Kocher 137
- Reading Austrian Contemporary Writers in India: Debates and Controversies / Amrit Mehta 150
- Making Invisible Empires: Joseph Dahlmann's India and His Catholic Vision during the Wilhelminian Era / Perry Myers 160
- Part IV Exploring India in Popular Media
- How German is the Indian Tiger? The Uncanny as the Repressed Familiar in Der Tiger von Eschnapur (Harbou, May, Lang) / Christine Lehleiter 188
- Imagining India Online: Second-Generation Indians in Germany / Urmila Goel 210.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held at the University of Toronto.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1847185878
- 9781847185877
- OCLC:
- 238899478
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