Daniel Raveh

Sūtras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy

Narrative and Transfiguration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upani¿adic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mah¿bh¿rata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Praj¿pati, Indra and Virocana from the Ch¿ndogya Upani¿ad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of ¿äkara in the King's body from the

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367876487
• ISBN-10: 0367876485
• Artikelnr.: 58440387

Autorenporträt

Daniel Raveh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Stories and S
tras 1. Truth versus Truthfulness in the Mah
bh
rata Story of Ekalavya 2. Is Mok
a Pleasant? An Alternative Discourse on Freedom in the 8th chapter of the Ch
ndogya-Upani
ad 3. Shankara in the King's Body: Knowing by Living Through 4. Memory, Forgetting, Self-identity: Philosophical Inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini