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