Unifying Hinduism: philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history
Some postcolonial theorists have argued that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although the idea of a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as many Hindu...
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; Contesting the Unity of Hinduism; Vijñanabhiks˙u and His Late Medieval Milieu; Doxography and Method; Premodern Philosophy in a Postcolonial World; 2. AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORYOF VEDĀNTA; Vedanta and Orientalist Historiography; Early Bhedabheda Vedanta; Bhedabheda Vedanta After Sankara; The Future of Bhedabheda Vedanta; 3. VIJÑĀNABHIKSU'S "DIFFERENCEAND NON-DIFFERENCE" VEDĀNTA; The Meaning of "Bhedabheda"; Self and Brahman as Part and Whole; Brahman's Causality in Advaita and Bhedabheda Vedanta; Bhedabheda and the Unity of Philosophies |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a 4. A HISTORY OF GOD IN SĀMKHYA AND YOGASamkhya: An Atheist Philosophy?; Theism in Early Samkhya and the Puranas; Atheism and Theism in "Classical" Samkhya; Samkhya and Yoga; 5. READING AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE SĀMKHYASŪTRAS; Atheism in the Samkhyasutras; Kapila's "Bold Assertion" as Speech Act; Degrees of Deception in Samkhya and the Puranas; Disproving God in the Samkhyasutras; 6. YOGA, PRAXIS, AND LIBERATION; The Excellence of the Yogic Path; Karma and Embodied Liberation; The Unity of Yoga and Vedanta Soteriologies; 7. VEDĀNTA AND SĀMKHYA IN THE ORIENTALIST IMAGINATION |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Indian Philosophy and the Critique of OrientalismColebrooke and Gough: The Struggle For the Essence of Vedanta; Paul Deussen and the Influence of German Idealism; Richard Garbe: Samkhya as the Foundation of Indian Philosophy; Orientalism and Modern Hindu Thought; 8. DOXOGRAPHY, CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMES, AND CONTESTED HISTORIES; Doxography as a Genre; Early Models for Doxography in India: Cattanar and Bhaviveka; Haribhadra, Jainism, and The Six Systems; Madhava and the Influenceof Advaita Doxography; Madhusudana Sarasvati: Foreignness and the Philosophical Other |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a AFFIRMERS (ĀSTIKAS) AND DENIERS (NĀSTIKAS) IN INDIAN HISTORYToward a Comparative Heresiology; The Meaning of Astika and Nastika; Perspectives from the Jainas, Buddhists, and Grammarians; Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy; Astika and Nastika in the Late Medieval Period; HINDU UNITY ANDTHE NON-HINDU OTHER; Inclusivism and Hindu Toleration; Decoding Late Medieval Doxography; The Absence of Islam; Hinduism: A Modern Invention?; Communalism, Universalism, and Hindu Identity; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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