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The Nay Science - A History of German Indology (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,756
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The Nay Science - A History of German Indology (Paperback): Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

The Nay Science - A History of German Indology (Paperback)

Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

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The Nay Science offers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita as their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities.
The authors show how, from its origins in eighteenth-century Neo-Protestantism onwards, the critical method was used as a way of making theological claims against rival philosophical and/or religious traditions. Via discussions of German Romanticism, the pantheism controversy, scientific positivism, and empiricism, they show how theological concerns dominated German scholarship on the Indian texts. Indology functions as a test case for wider concerns: the rise of historicism, the displacement of philosophical concerns from thinking, and the belief in the ability of a technical method to produce truth.
Based on the historical evidence of the first part of the book, Adluri and Bagchee make a case in the second part for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic scholarship and and the objections of its post-structuralist or post-Orientalist critics. By contrasting German Indology with Plato's concern for virtue and Gandhi's focus on praxis, the authors argue for a conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns and between eastern and western cultures.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2014
First published: July 2014
Authors: Vishwa Adluri (Adjunct Professor of Religion) • Joydeep Bagchee (Lecturer in Philosophy)
Dimensions: 234 x 165 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-993136-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
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LSN: 0-19-993136-4
Barcode: 9780199931361

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