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Mapping channels between ganges and rhein : german-indian cross-cultural relations / edited by Jorg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- India--Relations--Germany--Congresses.
- India.
- Germany--Relations--India--Congresses.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middlesex, England : 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, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Kalidasa's Sakuntala, Herder, the Schlegel brothers, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heine, Nietzsche, Max Müller, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore, the ideology of the "Aryan," Subhash Chandra Bose and his affiliation with Hitler, Gandhi, Annemarie Schimmel, Günter 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:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I: Surveying Indology
- 'German Diligence and German Profundity'
- The Whitney-Müller Conflict and Indo-German Connections
- Friedrich Max Müller-Vedic 'rúi' or untouchable mleccha ... or ...?
- Part II: Philosophical Borders
- The Problem of Action in the Early German Interpretation of the BhagavadgƯtƗ
- Does Monism do Ethical Work? Assessing Hacker's Critique of Vednntic and Schopenhauerian Ethics
- 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
- India meets Berlin
- Reading Austrian Contemporary Writers in India
- Making Invisible Empires
- 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)
- Imagining India Online
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held at the University of Toronto.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-251) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-6546-7
- OCLC:
- 1237868755
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