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1 online resource (xii, 266 pages). |
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text file |
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South Asia across the disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index. |
| Summary |
Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts--like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy--have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy. |
| Contents |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; Contesting the Unity of Hinduism; Vijñanabhiks?u and His Late Medieval Milieu; Doxography and Method; Premodern Philosophy in a Postcolonial World; 2. AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORYOF VEDANTA; Vedanta and Orientalist Historiography; Early Bhedabheda Vedanta; Bhedabheda Vedanta After Sankara; The Future of Bhedabheda Vedanta; 3. VIJÑANABHIKSU'S "DIFFERENCEAND NON-DIFFERENCE" VEDANTA; The Meaning of "Bhedabheda"; Self and Brahman as Part and Whole; Brahman's Causality in Advaita and Bhedabheda Vedanta; Bhedabheda and the Unity of Philosophies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hinduism -- History.
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Hinduism. |
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History. |
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India -- Intellectual life.
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India. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786612872419 |
| ISBN |
9780231526425 (electronic book) |
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0231526423 (electronic book) |
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9780231149860 |
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0231149867 |
| Standard No. |
9786612872419 |
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