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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy (Hardcover): Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,... The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar
R5,279 Discovery Miles 52 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion, without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from being gathered under the formal term “emotion”, but which in fact open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative, and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the field beyond the Western tradition.

Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge - Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology (Paperback): Chakravarthi... Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge - Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology (Paperback)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,399 Discovery Miles 13 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents a number of key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It also looks in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative analysis of philosophical issues to derive original arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.

In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions - Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation (Paperback): Brian Black,... In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions - Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation (Paperback)
Brian Black, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text, dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, there are very few studies that explore this important facet of Indian texts. This book redresses this imbalance by undertaking a close textual analysis of a range of religious and philosophical literature to highlight the many uses and functions of dialogue in the sources themselves and in subsequent interpretations. Using the themes of encounter, transformation and interpretation - all of which emerged from face-to-face discussions between the contributors of this volume - each chapter explores dialogue in its own context, thereby demonstrating the variety and pervasiveness of dialogue in different genres of the textual tradition. This is a rich and detailed study that offers a fresh and timely perspective on many of the most well-known and influential sources from classical India. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of religious studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and literary theory.

In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions - Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation (Hardcover): Brian Black,... In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions - Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation (Hardcover)
Brian Black, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R4,489 Discovery Miles 44 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text, dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, there are very few studies that explore this important facet of Indian texts. This book redresses this imbalance by undertaking a close textual analysis of a range of religious and philosophical literature to highlight the many uses and functions of dialogue in the sources themselves and in subsequent interpretations. Using the themes of encounter, transformation and interpretation - all of which emerged from face-to-face discussions between the contributors of this volume - each chapter explores dialogue in its own context, thereby demonstrating the variety and pervasiveness of dialogue in different genres of the textual tradition. This is a rich and detailed study that offers a fresh and timely perspective on many of the most well-known and influential sources from classical India. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of religious studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and literary theory.

Divine Self, Human Self - The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries (Hardcover, New): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Divine Self, Human Self - The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries (Hardcover, New)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize (2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The Gita is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of action and devotion. This book approaches their commentaries through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman (self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian theology and Western philosophy.

Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Paperback): Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Paperback)
Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,857 Discovery Miles 18 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary reality of individual persons can be explained, and the consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of thought in classical India.

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Paperback): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Paperback)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition.

Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Hardcover, New Ed): Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi... Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Hardcover, New Ed)
Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R4,635 Discovery Miles 46 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary reality of individual persons can be explained, and the consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of thought in classical India.

Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge - Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology (Hardcover, New Ed):... Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge - Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology (Hardcover, New Ed)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R4,623 Discovery Miles 46 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative analysis of philosophical issues, to derive original arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Hardcover): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Hardcover)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R5,731 R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Save R1,094 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Introduction
Section I: Sankara: Externality
1. Sankara and the philosophical framework of Advaita
2. Sankara, Vasubandhu and the idealist use of dreaming
3. Sankara, dreaming and non-realism
Section II: Vacaspati: Determinacy
1. Vacaspati on anirvacaniyatva
Section III: Sri Harsa: Existence
1. Knowledge and Existence
2. The non-realist critique of Existence
Discursive Appendix: Reading Sri Harsa through 20th century anti-sceptical naturalism
Section IV: Applying Non-Realism
1. Causal connections, cognition and regularity: comparativist remarks on David Hume and Sri Harsa
2. Immediacy and the direct theory of perception: problems with Sri Harsa

Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Hardcover): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Hardcover)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R2,340 Discovery Miles 23 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity. Examining four texts from different genres - a medical handbook, epic dialogue, a manual of Buddhist practice, and erotic poetry - he argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking. An ecology is a continuous and dynamic system of interrelationships between elements, in which the salience accorded to some type of relationship clarifies how the elements it relates are to be identified. The paradigm of ecological phenomenology obviates the need to choose between apparently incompatible perspectives of the human. The delineation of body is arrived at by working back phenomenologically from the world of experience, with the acknowledgement that the point of arrival - a conception of what counts as bodiliness - is dependent upon the exact motivation for attending to experience, the areas of experience attended to, and the expressive tools available to the phenomenologist. Ecological phenomenology is pluralistic, yet integrates the ways experience is attended to and studied, permitting apparently inconsistent intuitions about bodiliness to be explored in novel ways. Rather than seeing particular framings of our experience as in tension with each other, we should see each such framing as playing its own role according to the local descriptive and analytic concern of a text.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy (Paperback): Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,... The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy (Paperback)
Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar
R1,724 Discovery Miles 17 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion, without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from being gathered under the formal term "emotion", but which in fact open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative, and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the field beyond the Western tradition.

Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Paperback): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Paperback)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity. Examining four texts from different genres - a medical handbook, epic dialogue, a manual of Buddhist practice, and erotic poetry - he argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking. An ecology is a continuous and dynamic system of interrelationships between elements, in which the salience accorded to some type of relationship clarifies how the elements it relates are to be identified. The paradigm of ecological phenomenology obviates the need to choose between apparently incompatible perspectives of the human. The delineation of body is arrived at by working back phenomenologically from the world of experience, with the acknowledgement that the point of arrival - a conception of what counts as bodiliness - is dependent upon the exact motivation for attending to experience, the areas of experience attended to, and the expressive tools available to the phenomenologist. Ecological phenomenology is pluralistic, yet integrates the ways experience is attended to and studied, permitting apparently inconsistent intuitions about bodiliness to be explored in novel ways. Rather than seeing particular framings of our experience as in tension with each other, we should see each such framing as playing its own role according to the local descriptive and analytic concern of a text.

Divine Self, Human Self - The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries (Paperback, New): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Divine Self, Human Self - The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries (Paperback, New)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize (2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The Gita is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of action and devotion. This book approaches their commentaries through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman (self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian theology and Western philosophy.

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