The nay science : a history of German Indology / Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.
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82-92 YER Quest | 82-94 ADI Last man in tower | 82-94 ADI Notes on grief | 82-94 ADL The nay science : a history of German Indology / | 82-94 ALL My invented country: memoir | 82-94 ALL Ashoka | 82-94 ARB Afghan Rumour Bazaar Secret sub cultures hidden worlds and the everyday lofe of the absurd |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-471) and index.
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.
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