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The German Gita Bradley L. Herling

The German Gita By Bradley L. Herling

The German Gita by Bradley L. Herling


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This book charts the initial interpretation of the Bhagavadgita in German intellectual circles with special attention to the way in which local philosophical and philological debates inflected its fundamental concepts.

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The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought by Bradley L. Herling

How did the Bhagavadgata first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgata around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the Bhagavadgata and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews.

About Bradley L. Herling

Bradley L. Herling holds a full-time instructorship in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1-Theoretical Introduction
Chapter 2-Herder and the Early Flowers of India in Germany
Chapter 3-Herder Gathers the Gita's Flowers
Chapter 4-The Dilemma of Pantheism in Friedrich Schlegel's Gita
Chapter 5-A.W. Schlegel's Indian Sphinx: The Riddle of Gita Translation
Chapter 6-German Absorption in the Gita: von Humboldt and Hegel
Chapter 7-Conclusion
Bibliography

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NLS9780415871143
9780415871143
041587114X
The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought by Bradley L. Herling
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-05-26
360
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