Contrary thinking : selected essays of Daya Krishna / edited by Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield, and Daniel Raveh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krishna, Daya, author.

Contributor:

Bhushan, Nalini, editor.

Garfield, Jay L., 1955- editor.

Raveh, Daniel, editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Indic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages)

Other Title:

Selected essays of Daya Krishna

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daya Krishna (1924-2007) was easily the most creative and original Indian philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. His thought and philosophical energy dominated academic Indian philosophy and determined the nature of the engagement of Indian p

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART I: Entrée; 1. Thinking versus Thought: Strategies for Conceptual Creativity; PART II: Thinking about Thinking; 2. Thinking Creatively about the Creative Act; 3. Thinking with Causality about "Causality:" Reflections on a "Concept" Determining All Thought about Action and Knowledge; PART III: Samvāda; 4. Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought To Be; 5. Apoha and Samavāya in Kantian Perspective; 6. Is "Tat Tvam Asi" the Same Type of Identity Statement as "The Morning Star Is the Evening Star?"; PART IV: Vaidalya

7. Rasa : The Bane of Indian Aesthetics8. Substance: The Bane of Philosophy; PART V: Negation; 9. Negation: Can Philosophy Ever Recover from It?; 10. Some Problems Regarding Th inking about Abhāva in the Indian Tradition; PART VI: Knowledge; 11. Knowledge: Whose Is It, What Is It, and Why Has It to Be "True?"; 12. Definition, Deception, and the Enterprise of Knowledge; PART VII: Truth; 13. Madness, Reason, and Truth; 14. Illusion, Hallucination, and the Problem of Truth; 15. Reality, Imagination, and Truth; PART VIII: Indian Philosophical Reflections

16. The "Shock-Proof," "Evidence-Proof," "Argument-Proof" World of Sāmpradāyika Scholarship of Indian Philosophy17. Can the Analysis of Adhyāsa Ever Lead to an Advaitic Conclusion?; PART IX: Sruti; 18. Is the Doctrine of Arthavāda Compatible with the Idea of Sruti? The Basic Dilemma for the Revelatory Texts of Any Tradition; 19. The Mīmāmsāka versus the Yājñika: Some Further Problems in the Interpretation of Śruti; PART X: Veda; 20. Rgveda: The Mantra, the Sukta, and the Mandala, or The Rsi, the Devatā, the Chanda: The Structure of the Text and the Problems Regarding It

21. The Vedic Corpus and the Two Sutra-Texts Concerned with It: The Mīmām. sasutra and the BrahmasutraPART XI: Transgressions; 22. Did the Gopīs Really Love Krsna? Some Reflections on Bhakti as a Purusārtha in the Indian Tradition; 23. Reflections on an Alleged Anecdote in Śankara's Life; PART XII: Free Thinking; 24. Freeing Philosophy from the "Prison-House" of "I-Centricity"; 25. Freedom, Reason, Ethics, and Aesthetics; Envoi; 26. Eros, Nomos, Logos; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Y; W

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-19-026763-1

1-283-42734-6

9786613427342

0-19-979562-2

OCLC:

769344041