The German Gita - Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought (Paperback)

How did the Bhagavadgata first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgata around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the Bhagavadgata and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Philosophy
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	2004
Authors:	Bradley L Herling
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-87114-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > Bacteriology
LSN:	0-415-87114-X
Barcode:	9780415871143

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