From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major
cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility
reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this
time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature
of human beings. "More than Real" draws our attention to a period
in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and
the emergence of a new, proto-modern vision.
In general, India conceived of the imagination as a causative
agent: things we perceive are real because we imagine them. David
Shulman illuminates this distinctiveness and shows how it differed
radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
Shulman's explication offers insightful points of comparison with
ancient Greek, medieval Islamic, and early modern European theories
of mind, and returns Indology to its rightful position of
intellectual relevance in the humanities.
At a time when contemporary ideologies and language wars
threaten to segregate the study of pre-modern India into linguistic
silos, Shulman demonstrates through his virtuoso readings of
important literary works works translated lyrically by the author
from Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam that Sanskrit and the
classical languages of southern India have been intimately
interwoven for centuries."
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