The Nay Science : A History of German Indology Paperback / softback
by Vishwa (Adjunct Professor of Religion, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Hunter College) Adluri, Joydeep (Lecturer in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy, Philipps-Universitdt Marburg) Bagchee
Paperback / softback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:24/07/2014
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- ISBN:9780199931361
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:24/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199931361