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Zusatztext This book successfully outlines the pluralistic descriptions of emotions dealt with in Indian texts without categorizing them by Western concepts more dominant in the field. It is a laudable contribution to our understanding of the medieval Indian world of emotions in its own concepts and values. Informationen zum Autor Maria Heim is Professor of Religion and Elizabeth W. Bruss Reader at Amherst College, USA. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought (Palgrave, 2001), Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An outline of Indian non-realism (Routledge, 2002), Eastern Philosophy (Wiedenfield and Nicholson, 2005), India: Life, Myth and Art (Duncan Baird, 2006), which has been translated into French, Polish and Finnish, and Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2007). He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Beyond Belief and Sunday Programme. Roy Tzohar is Associate Professor in the Department of East and South Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Vorwort The first comprehensive exploration of human subjectivity and emotion in classical Indian traditions. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion, without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from being gathered under the formal term “emotion”, but which in fact open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative, and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the field beyond the Western tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction, Maria Heim (Amherst College, USA), Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University, USA) and Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 1. Grief, Tranquillity, and Santa Rasa in Ravisena’s Padmapurana , Gregory Clines (Trinity University, USA) 2. Emotions in Visistadvaita Vedanta, Elisa Freschi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 3. Joy as Medicine? Yogavasistha and Descartes on the Affective Sources of Disease, Ana Laura Funes Maderay (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA) 4. Some Analyses of Feeling, Maria Heim (Amherst College, USA) 5. Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, Sita and Yasodhara, Steven P. Hopkins (Swarthmore College, USA) 6. The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and Narrative Thought, Sonam Kachru (University of Virginia, USA) 7. Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness: Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the Jivanmuktiviveka ,
