Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-45233-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century.

When debates over God, religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit translations of classical Indian thought became available for the first time. Almost overnight India became the centre of a major controversy concerning the origins of western religious and intellectual culture. Working forward from this controversy, this book examines how early translations of works such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras were caught in the crossfire of another debate concerning the rise of pantheism, as a doctrine that identifies God and nature. It shows how these theological concerns shaped the image of Indian thought in the work of Schlegel, Gunderrode, Humboldt, Hegel, Schelling, and others, lasting into the nineteenth century and beyond. Furthermore, this book explores how worries about the perceived nihilism of Yoga were addressed by key voices in the early twentieth century Indian Renaissance – notably Dasgupta, Radhakrishnan, and Bhattacharyya – who defended sophisticated counterreadings of their intellectual heritage during the colonial era.

Written for non-specialists, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany will be of interest to students and scholars working on nineteenth-century philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, Hindu studies, intellectual history, and religious history.

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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ware, Owen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Indian Pantheism and the Threat of Nihilism  1. The Perils of Pantheism: Schlegel and Karoline von Günderrode 2. The Song of God: Humboldt’s Philosophical Poem 3. “Abstract Devotion”: Yoga in Hegel and Schelling  Part 2: God, Morality, and Freedom  4. Yoga in the Late Nineteenth Century: Pal, Mitra, Vivekananda, and Müller 5. The Bengali Philosophers: Dasgupta, Radhakrishnan, and Bhattacharyya Conclusion. Yoga, the “True Proteus” Appendix. Images of India: Voltaire and Herder

Über Autor(innen)

Owen Ware is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His previous books include Fichte’s Moral Philosophy (2020), Kant’s Justification of Ethics (2021), and Kant on Freedom (2023).