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The Hermeneutics of Suspicion - Cross-Cultural Encounters with India (Hardcover)
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The Hermeneutics of Suspicion - Cross-Cultural Encounters with India (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
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Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and
historical, breadth The Hermeneutics of Suspicion poses an original
investigation into our understanding of alterity in Indian
literature and history, and significantly contributes to an
emerging discourse on East-West literary relations. Hans Georg
Gadamer's notion of hermeneutical consciousness seeks to open up a
cultural context through which to engage the other. It stands in
opposition to the hermeneutics of suspicion advocated by recent
popular theories, such as colonial discourse analysis,
multiculturalism, postcolonial theory, the critique of globalism,
etc. In his late work, Paul Ricoeur charts a middle path between
the hermeneutics of suspicion and a hermeneutical consciousness
that addresses the ontological and ethical categories of otherness.
His approach reflects concerns voiced elsewhere, particularly in
the historiography of Michel de Certeau and the ethics of Emmanuel
Levinas. This volume follows the path proposed by Ricoeur and,
alongside Certeau and Levinas, provides an examination of varying
representations of the Indian Other in classical Greek and Sanskrit
sources, the writings of Church Fathers, apocryphal literature, the
Romance tradition, Portuguese and Italian travel narratives and
Jesuit mission letters. In the various texts examined, the problems
of translation are highlighted together with the sense that
understanding can be found somewhere between the different
approaches of hermeneutical consciousness and critical
consciousness. This book not only looks at the European reception
of the Indian other, but also looks at the ancient Indian view of
its others and the cross-pollination of Indian concepts of
otherness with the West.
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