The nay science : a history of German Indology / Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adluri, Vishwa, author.

Bagchee, Joydeep, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahābhārata--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Mahābhārata.

Bhagavadgītā--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bhagavadgītā.

Hindu philosophy--Study and teaching--Germany--History--18th century.

Hindu philosophy.

Hindu philosophy--Study and teaching--Germany--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Nay Science, Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. Analyzing the intellectual contexts of this scholarship, beginning with theological debates that centered on Martin Luther's solefidian doctrine and proceeding to scientific positivism via analyses of disenchantment (Entzauberung), German Romanticism, pantheism (Pantheismusstreit), and historicism, they show how each of these movements progressively shaped German philology's encounter with the Indian epic.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Nay Science""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Nay Science""; ""Introduction""; ""A History of German Indology""; ""The History of German Indology as a History of Method""; ""The Origins of the Historical-Critical Method in the Neo-Protestantism of the Eighteenth Century""; ""Defining the Scope of Inquiry""; ""Plan of Study""; ""Chapter 1 . The Search for an Urepos""; ""Introduction""; ""The First Phase of German Gita Reception""; ""The Birth of German Mahabharata Studies""; ""Ideas of Heroic Epic""; ""The Indo-Germanic Epic""

""The Birth of Modern Mahabharata Studies""""Holtzmann�s Legacy to Gita Studies""; ""Chapter 2 . The Search for German Identity""; ""Introduction""; ""The Genesis of Holtzmann�s Mahabharata""; ""Polemics against the Brahmans""; ""Ideas of Critical Reconstruction""; ""Ideas of Epic Composition""; ""Ideas of Religious Conflict""; ""Ideas of Textual Corruption""; ""Ideas of Historical Distortion""; ""Ideas of Enlightened Religion""; ""Ideas of Religious Persecution""; ""Ideas of Religious Corruption""; ""Ideas of Racial Contamination""; ""Evaluating Holtzmann�s Textual Project""

""Mahabharata Criticism after Holtzmann""""A Problem of Reception""; ""Chapter 3 . The Search for the Original Gita""; ""Introduction""; ""The Gita Reemerges""; ""The Pantheistic Gita of Adolf Holtzmann""; ""Pantheism and the Bhagavadgita""; ""The Theistic Gita of Richard Garbe""; ""Ideas of Bhagavata Religion""; ""The Epic Gita of Hermann Jacobi""; ""Defending Philosophical Pantheism""; ""The KR.S.N.a Gita of Hermann Oldenberg""; ""Resistances to Modernity""; ""A Revelation and a Mystery""; ""The Trinitarian Gita of Rudolf Otto""; ""God reveals Himself""

""An Auto-Didact among Auto-Didacts""""The Aryan Gita of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer""; ""By Reason of Race""; ""The Method becomes Autonomous""; ""The Prejudices are Institutionalized""; ""An Essay in Understanding?""; ""Chapter 4 . The Search for a Universal Method""; ""Introduction""; ""The Scientization of Protestant Theology in the Critical Method""; ""The Secularization of Protestant Theology in the Study of the History of Religions""; ""The Institutionalization of Protestant Theology in Indology""; ""Chapter 5 . Problems with the Critical Method""; ""Introduction""

""Steps Toward a Scientific Indology""""Steps Toward a Positivist Philology""; ""Construing the (Natural) Scientific Character of Philology""; ""Historicism and the Seductions of Positive Sociology""; ""Empiricism and the Search for General Propositions""; ""Criticisms of the Positivistic Notion of Truth""; ""Kant�s Critical Turn and the Significance of Apriorism""; ""Rethinking the Scientific Character of the Human Sciences""; ""Conclusion: Gandhi on the Gita""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-993135-6

OCLC:

922972982