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Author Wright, Samuel (historian of South Asia), author.

Title A time of novelty : logic, emotion, and intellectual life in early modern India, 1500-1700 C.E. / Samuel Wright
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Newness and Emotion: 1. Doubt -- 2. Objectivity -- Part II. Feeling and Reasoning: 3. Happiness -- 4. Dying -- Part III. Space and Time: 5. Space -- 6. Time -- Conclusion: A Time of Novelty -- Appendix -- Table 2. Data for Map 2. Manuscript Economy: northern view -- Table 3. Data for Map 3. Manuscript Economy: southern view -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book argues that a philosophical community emerges in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India that crafts an intellectual life on the basis of intellectual and emotional responses to novelty in Sanskrit logic (nyāya-śāstra). As the book demonstrates, novelty was a primary concept used by Sanskrit logicians during this period to mark the boundaries of a philosophical community in both intellectual and emotional terms. This concept was expressed in their texts through the use of terms such as old and new when discussing certain philosophical opinions, signaling that periodization was a major component of their philosophy. By retaining space for emotion when studying intellectual thought, this book recovers not only what it means to 'think' novelty but also what it means to 'feel' novelty. Studying little-known essays by Sanskrit logicians in early modernity, the book explores the contours of what is termed 'intellectual novelty' and 'affective novelty' in Sanskrit logic-expressions of novelty in which is contained both cognitive and emotional content that, taken together, constitute intellectual life"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on November 5, 2021)
Subject Navya Nyāya -- Early works to 1800
Fallacies (Logic) -- Early works to 1800
Hindu logic.
Emotional intelligence.
Fallacies (Logic)
Hindu logic
Intellectual life
Navya Nyāya
SUBJECT India -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
India -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Subject India
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020050209
ISBN 9780197568187
0197568181
0197568173
9780197568170