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Author Adluri, Vishwa.

Title The nay science : a history of German Indology / Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Contents 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
""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""
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
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
""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""
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bhagavadgītā -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bhagavadgītā fast (OCoLC)fst01356184
Mahābhārata. fast (OCoLC)fst01356112
Subject Hindu philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Hindu philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Germany.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bagchee, Joydeep.
ISBN 9780199931354
0199931356
9781306731096
1306731097
9780199345724
0199345724