The nay science : (Record no. 58986)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 220608s20142018enkab b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780190870249 (pbk) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 82-94 |
| Item number | ADL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Adluri, Vishwa. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The nay science : |
| Sub Title | a history of German Indology / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | South Asia Edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 494p. |
| Other physical details | illustraitons, map ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-471) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book 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 its example, the book develops a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities. The book shows 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, it shows 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, a case is then made in the second part for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic scholarship 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 book argues for a conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns and between eastern and western cultures. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Hindu philosophy |
| Geographic subdivision | Germany |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Hindu philosophy |
| Geographic subdivision | Germany |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bagchee, Joydeep. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | Second floor, Rack No: 57, Shelf No: 10 | 82-94 ADL | 76143 | BOOKS |