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The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo - Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
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The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo - Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru,
and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of
Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of
Aurobindo's key texts by bringing them into conversation with
religious studies and the hermeneutical traditions. The central
argument is that Aurobindo's integral philosophy is best understood
as a hermeneutical philosophy of religion. Such an understanding of
Aurobindo's philosophy, offering both substantive and
methodological insights for the academic study of religion,
subdivides into three interrelated aims. The first is to
demonstrate that the power of the Aurobindonian vision lies in its
self-conception as a traditionary-hermeneutical enquiry into
religion; the second, to draw substantive insights from Aurobindo's
enquiry to envision a way beyond the impasse within the current
religious-secular debate in the academic study of religion. Working
out of the condition of secularism, the dominant secularists demand
the abandonment of the category 'religion' and the dismantling of
the academic discipline of religious studies. Aurobindo's integral
work on 'religion', arising out of the Vedanta tradition, critiques
the condition of secularity that undergirds the religious-secular
debate. Finally, informed by the hermeneutical tradition and
building on the methodological insights from Aurobindo's integral
method, the book explores a hermeneutical approach for the study of
religion which is dialogical in nature. This book will be of
interest to academics studying Religious Studies, Philosophy of
Religion, Continental Hermeneutics, Modern India, Modern Hinduism
as well as South Asian Studies.
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