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020			_a9780190870249 (pbk)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-94 _bADL
100	1		_aAdluri, Vishwa.
245	1	4	_aThe nay science : _ba history of German Indology / _cVishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.
250			_aSouth Asia Edition
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2014
300			_axvi, 494p. _billustraitons, map ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 447-471) and index.
520			_aThis 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	_aHindu philosophy _zGermany
650		0	_aHindu philosophy _zGermany
690			_aGeneral
700	1		_aBagchee, Joydeep.
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