The German Gita by Bradley L. Herling (2009) [PDF] {VTS}

Title: The German Gita - Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought
Author: Bradley L. Herling
Series: Studies in Philosophy
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 28, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041587114X
ISBN-13: 978-0415871143



Promotional info/Publisher's summary - "How did the Bhagavad-Gita first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgãtà around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the Bhagavadgãtà and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews."

About the Author:
Bradley L. Herling holds a full-time instructorship in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.

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