The Nay Science A History of German Indology Vishwa Adluri 1st Edition by Vishwa Adluri,Joydeep Bagchee ISBN 0199931364 978-0199931361

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ISBN 10: 0199931364 

ISBN 13: 978-0199931361

Author: Vishwa Adluri,Joydeep Bagchee

The Nay Science offers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita as their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities.

The authors show how, from its origins in eighteenth-century Neo-Protestantism onwards, the critical method was used as a way of making theological claims against rival philosophical and/or religious traditions. Via discussions of German Romanticism, the pantheism controversy, scientific positivism, and empiricism, they show how theological concerns dominated German scholarship on the Indian texts. Indology functions as a test case for wider concerns: the rise of historicism, the displacement of philosophical concerns from thinking, and the belief in the ability of a technical method to produce truth.

Based on the historical evidence of the first part of the book, Adluri and Bagchee make a case in the second part for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic scholarship and the objections of its post-structuralist or post-Orientalist critics. By contrasting German Indology with Plato’s concern for virtue and Gandhi’s focus on praxis, the authors argue for a conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns and between eastern and western cultures.

Table of contents: 

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
The Search fo an Urepos
The Search for German Identity
The Search for the Original Gita
The Search for a Universal Method
Problems with the Critical Method
Conclusion: Gandhi on the Gita
Bibliography

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