Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 266 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0231149867
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9780231149860
Series Statement:
South Asia across the disciplines
Content:
Some postcolonial theorists have argued that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although the idea of a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as many Hindus claim, it has its roots in the innovations of South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga and the deities Visnu, Siva, and Sakti as all belonging to a single system of belief and practice& mdash;rivers leading into the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 VEDĀNTA; Vedanta and Orientalist Historiography; Early Bhedabheda Vedanta; Bhedabheda Vedanta After Sankara; The Future of Bhedabheda Vedanta; 3. VIJÑĀNABHIKSU'S "DIFFERENCEAND NON-DIFFERENCE" VEDĀNTA; 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
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4. A HISTORY OF GOD IN SĀMKHYA AND YOGASamkhya: An Atheist Philosophy?; Theism in Early Samkhya and the Puranas; Atheism and Theism in "Classical" Samkhya; Samkhya and Yoga; 5. READING AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE SĀMKHYASŪTRAS; Atheism in the Samkhyasutras; Kapila's "Bold Assertion" as Speech Act; Degrees of Deception in Samkhya and the Puranas; Disproving God in the Samkhyasutras; 6. YOGA, PRAXIS, AND LIBERATION; The Excellence of the Yogic Path; Karma and Embodied Liberation; The Unity of Yoga and Vedanta Soteriologies; 7. VEDĀNTA AND SĀMKHYA IN THE ORIENTALIST IMAGINATION
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Indian Philosophy and the Critique of OrientalismColebrooke and Gough: The Struggle For the Essence of Vedanta; Paul Deussen and the Influence of German Idealism; Richard Garbe: Samkhya as the Foundation of Indian Philosophy; Orientalism and Modern Hindu Thought; 8. DOXOGRAPHY, CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMES, AND CONTESTED HISTORIES; Doxography as a Genre; Early Models for Doxography in India: Cattanar and Bhaviveka; Haribhadra, Jainism, and The Six Systems; Madhava and the Influenceof Advaita Doxography; Madhusudana Sarasvati: Foreignness and the Philosophical Other
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AFFIRMERS (ĀSTIKAS) AND DENIERS (NĀSTIKAS) IN INDIAN HISTORYToward a Comparative Heresiology; The Meaning of Astika and Nastika; Perspectives from the Jainas, Buddhists, and Grammarians; Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy; Astika and Nastika in the Late Medieval Period; HINDU UNITY ANDTHE NON-HINDU OTHER; Inclusivism and Hindu Toleration; Decoding Late Medieval Doxography; The Absence of Islam; Hinduism: A Modern Invention?; Communalism, Universalism, and Hindu Identity; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
0231526423
Additional Edition:
9780231526425
Additional Edition:
Print version Unifying Hinduism : Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Language:
English
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