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First Words, Last Words - New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India (Hardcover)
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First Words, Last Words - New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Religion in Translation
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First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took
place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence
McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of
innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual
innovation. This debate took place within the traditional
discourses of Vedic Hermeneutics, or Mimamsa, and its increasingly
influential sibling discipline of Vedanta, and its proponents among
the leading intellectuals and public figures of the period. Bronner
and McCrea examine the nature of theoretical innovation in
scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy
regarding scriptural interpretation and the role of sequence-what
comes first and what follows later-in determining our
interpretation of a scriptural passage. Vyasatirtha and his
grand-pupil Vijayindratirtha, writers belonging to the camp of
Dualist Vedanta, purported to uphold the radical view of their
founding father, Madhva, who believed, against a long tradition of
Mimamsa interpreters, that the closing portion of a scriptural
passage should govern the interpretation of its opening. By
contrast, the Nondualist Appayya Diksita ostensibly defended his
tradition's preference for the opening. But, as this volume shows,
the debaters gradually converged on a profoundly novel
hermeneutic-cognitive theory in which sequence played little role,
if any. First Words, Last Words traces both the issue of sequence
and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this
debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in
this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when
they were in fact radically innovative.
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