More Than Real - A History of the Imagination in South India

Informationen zum Autor David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries! the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind. Zusammenfassung From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries! the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.

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• Authors: David Shulman, Shulman David
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2012
• EAN: 9780674059917
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05991-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politics & government, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Asian History, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Asia / South / India