Minds without fear : philosophy in the Indian renaissance / Nalini Bhushan, and Jay L. Garfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhushan, Nalini, author.

Garfield, Jay L., 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Indic--History.

Philosophy, Indic.

India--Intellectual life.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 334 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophy in the Indian renaissance

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy - both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities - played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity.

Contents:

Introduction

The tragedy of Indian philosophy: colonial subjection and contemporary amnesia

Looking backward: reason, cosmopolitan consciousness, and the emergence of Indian modernity

The company and the crown: Macaulay's India?

On the very idea of a renaissance

Reform movements: from universality to secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj

India imagined: contested narratives of national identity

Anticipating India's future: varieties of nationalism

Theorizing Swaraj: politics and the academy

The Cambridge connection: idealism, modernity, and the circulation of ideas

Māyā versus Līlā: from Śaṅkaracārya to Einstein

The question of subjectivity: neo-vedānta in academic philosophy

Indian ways of seeing: the centrality of aesthetics

The triumph of Indian philosophy: thinking through the renaissance

References

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-067299-4

0-19-045761-9

0-19-045760-0