Indian Philosophy in English

From Renaissance to Independence
Herausgeber: Bhushan, Nalini; Garfield, Jay L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780199769254
• ISBN-10: 0199769257
• Artikelnr.: 33372694

Autorenporträt

Nalini Bhushan is Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. She pursues research in aesthetics, the philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and Indian philosophy. She is co-editor of Of Minds and Molecules and of TransBuddhism: Translation, Transmission and Transformation. Bhushan is currently working on aesthetic questions raised by the work of artist Amrita Sher-Gil. Jay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He works in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics and epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Whose Voice? Whose Tongue? Philosophy in English in Colonial India (BandG)
1: National Identity
2: Aesthetics
3: Vedanta
4: Metaphysics and Epistemology
5: Symposium: Has Aurobindo Refuted Mayavada?
Indra Sen, NA Nikam, Haridas Chaudhuri and GR Malkani (Amalner 1950)
Bibliography of Indian Philosophy in the Colonial Period