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Zusatztext If ever there is a fine specimen of how to do the in-depth history of ideas as it pertains to an academic discipline, this study by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee ranks very, very highly. Informationen zum Autor Vishwa Adluri is Adjunct Professor of Religion at Hunter College. Joydeep Bagchee is Lecturer in Philosophy at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Klappentext In The Nay-Science! Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. "This book begins at a point where Edward Said left off. Rather than replicate the 'Orientalist' critique as so many have done, Adluri and Bagchee offer a diagnosis of German Indology as a form of 'Occidentalism': rather than accomplishing its stated goal of defining the other (which would be 'Orientalism'), it represents the other so as to define itself The Nay Science challenges scholars to recognize that the 'Brahmanic hypothesis' was not and probably no longer can be an innocuous thesis. The 'corrupting' impact of Brahmanical 'priestcraft' served German Indology as a cover by which to talk about Catholics, Jews, and other 'Semites.'" -- Alf Hiltebeitel, Professor of Religion and Human Sciences, George Washington University Zusammenfassung In The Nay Science, Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; A History of German Indology; The History of German Indology as a History of Method; The Origins of the Historical-Critical Method in Neo-Protestantism of the 18th Century; The Origins of Philology in the Argument for the Immortality of the Soul; Defining the Scope of Inquiry; Plan of Study; Chapter 1: Historical Identity and Narrative Constructs in an Indo-Germanic Setting; The Birth of German Mahabharata Studies; The Indo-Germanic Original Epic:; The Buddhist Poetic Composition; Buddhism and Protestantism; Protestantism! the Counter-Reformation! and the Prosecution of Heresy; The Twin Brahmanic Redactions; Brahmanism and Catholicism; Return to the Problem of Textual Reconstruction; Chapter 2: Text-Historical Reconstruction and the Struggle for an Objective Canon; The Bhagavad Gita in German Indology; The Theistic Gita: Richard Garbe; The Epic Gita: Hermann Jacobi; A Practical Gita: Hermann Oldenberg; The Trinitarian Gita: Rudolf Otto; The Soldier's Gita: Theodor Springmann; The Aryan Gita: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer; The Brahmanic Gita: Georg von Simson; What is the German Gita?: A Review; Chapter 3: German Indology in the Context of the European Geisteswissenschaften; Problems with the Critical Method; The Scientification 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; Three Notions of Science: Positivism! Historicism! and Empiricism; Criticisms of the Positivistic Notion of Truth; From Historicism to Hermeneutics; Conclusion; Writing under Erasure; Creating the Object of Scientific Research; Honest Heretics or Neo-Brahmins?; Afterword: Gandhi on the Gita Problem; Notes; Bibliography; Index ...
