1st Edition
The German Gita Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought
By Bradley L. Herling
Copyright 2006
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
370 Pages
by
Routledge
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How did the Bhagavadgãtà 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 more
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
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
Biography
Bradley L. Herling holds a full-time instructorship in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.
