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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This title 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. |
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Cover -- The Nay Science -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Nay Science -- Introduction -- A History of German Indology -- The History of German Indology as a History of Method -- The Origins of the Historical-Critical Method in the Neo-Protestantism of the Eighteenth Century -- Defining the Scope of Inquiry -- Plan of Study -- Chapter 1 . The Search for an Urepos -- Introduction -- The First Phase of German Gita Reception -- The Birth of German Mahabharata Studies -- Ideas of Heroic Epic -- The Indo-Germanic Epic |
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""The Birth of Modern Mahabharata Studies""""Holtzmann�s Legacy to Gita Studies""; ""Chapter 2 . The Search for German Identity""; ""Introduction""; ""The Genesis of Holtzmann�s Mahabharata""; ""Polemics against the Brahmans""; ""Ideas of Critical Reconstruction""; ""Ideas of Epic Composition""; ""Ideas of Religious Conflict""; ""Ideas of Textual Corruption""; ""Ideas of Historical Distortion""; ""Ideas of Enlightened Religion""; ""Ideas of Religious Persecution""; ""Ideas of Religious Corruption""; ""Ideas of Racial Contamination""; ""Evaluating Holtzmann�s Textual Project"" |
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Mahabharata Criticism after HoltzmannA Problem of Reception -- Chapter 3 . The Search for the Original Gita -- Introduction -- The Gita Reemerges -- The Pantheistic Gita of Adolf Holtzmann -- Pantheism and the Bhagavadgita -- The Theistic Gita of Richard Garbe -- Ideas of Bhagavata Religion -- The Epic Gita of Hermann Jacobi -- Defending Philosophical Pantheism -- The KR. S.N.a Gita of Hermann Oldenberg -- Resistances to Modernity -- A Revelation and a Mystery -- The Trinitarian Gita of Rudolf Otto -- God reveals Himself |
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An Auto-Didact among Auto-DidactsThe Aryan Gita of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer -- By Reason of Race -- The Method becomes Autonomous -- The Prejudices are Institutionalized -- An Essay in Understanding? -- Chapter 4 . The Search for a Universal Method -- Introduction -- The Scientization of Protestant Theology in the Critical Method -- The Secularization of Protestant Theology in the Study of the History of Religions -- The Institutionalization of Protestant Theology in Indology -- Chapter 5 . Problems with the Critical Method -- Introduction |
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""Steps Toward a Scientific Indology""""Steps Toward a Positivist Philology""; ""Construing the (Natural) Scientific Character of Philology""; ""Historicism and the Seductions of Positive Sociology""; ""Empiricism and the Search for General Propositions""; ""Criticisms of the Positivistic Notion of Truth""; ""Kant�s Critical Turn and the Significance of Apriorism""; ""Rethinking the Scientific Character of the Human Sciences""; ""Conclusion: Gandhi on the Gita""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Mahābhārata. |
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Bhagavadgītā -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bhagavadgītā. |
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Mahābhārata -- Critique, interprétation, etc. |
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Bhagavadgītā. |
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Mahābhārata. |
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Hindu philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
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Hindu philosophy. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Hindu philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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19th century |
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. |
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1700-1899 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bagchee, Joydeep.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adluri, Vishwa. Nay science 9780199931361 (DLC) 2013012873 (OCoLC)827841368 |
| ISBN |
9780199931354 (electronic book) |
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0199931356 (electronic book) |
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9781306731096 (MyiLibrary) |
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1306731097 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780199345724 (electronic book) |
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0199345724 (electronic book) |
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9780199931361 (Paper) |
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0199931364 (Paper) |
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9780199931347 (Cloth) |
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0199931348 (Cloth) |
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