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Reality, Religion, and Passion - Indian and Western Approaches in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami (Hardcover, New)
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Reality, Religion, and Passion - Indian and Western Approaches in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
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The problem of radical doubt has threatened the commitment to
ultimate truth in many cultures and periods. In Reality, Religion,
and Passion, Jessica Frazier compares two thinkers who sought to
restore philosophy's passion for truth in cultures threatened by
the dispassion of radical doubt. In these complementary but
divergent philosophies from Europe and India, each grounded in a
transcendental metaphysics that sees consciousness as the basis of
reality, two different ethics of vitality and passion take shape.
Frazier shows how Heidegger's heir, Hans-Georg Gadamer, uses
metaphysical insights borrowed from Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and
Heidegger as the ground for an ethics of "play" which casts a
uniquely positive light on the finitude and flux of the postmodern
world-view. Complementing this continental European position, the
work of Rupa Gosvami, a poet-theologian of early modern India
develops a similar analysis of phenomenal reality into a philosophy
not of play, but of passion. From Gadamer's philosophers and poets,
to Gosvami's amorous goddess Radha, both visions see salvation in a
renewed passion for truth. This journey toward a viable philosophy
of life touches on a range of debates in Western philosophy and
Indian religion, including the nature of philosophical and
religious truths, the perceived goals of philosophy, the history of
emotion in reason and religion, and the development of
phenomenological accounts of subjectivity. It establishes a model
for comparative philosophical methodology, and aims to contribute
to a multicultural history of religious and philosophical
reasoning. Above all, this book addresses Badiou's challenge to
rediscover "the passion of the real" and Heidegger's injunction to
all thinkers to "seek the word that is able to call one to faith."
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