| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) |
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South Asia across the disciplines |
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- An alternative history of Vedānta -- Vijñānabhikṣu's "difference and non-difference" Vedānta -- A history of God in Sāṃkhya and yoga -- Reading against the grain of the Sāṃkhyasūtras -- Yoga, praxis, and liberation -- Vendānta and Sāṃkhya in the orientalist imagination -- Doxography, classificatory schemes, and contested histories -- Affirmers (astikas) and deniers (nastikas) in Indian history -- Hindu unity and the non-Hindu other |
| Summary |
Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts--like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy--have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Hinduism -- History.
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- History.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Hinduism
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Intellectual life
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Indische filosofie.
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Intellectuelen.
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Geschiedenis.
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Hinduismus.
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Einheit.
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Philosophie.
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Hinduism -- historia.
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India -- Intellectual life
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India
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India.
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Indien.
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Indien -- intellektuellt liv.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010027458 |
| ISBN |
9780231526425 |
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0231526423 |
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1282872419 |
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9781282872417 |
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9786612872419 |
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6612872411 |
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