{"product_id":"nay-science-vishwa-adluri-9780199931361","title":"Nay Science: A History of German Indology","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Nay Science \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eBhagavadgita\u003c\/em\u003e as their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors show how, from its origins in eighteenth-century Neo-Protestantism onwards, the critical method was used as a way of making theological claims against rival philosophical and\/or religious traditions. Via discussions of German Romanticism, the pantheism controversy, scientific positivism, and empiricism, they show how theological concerns dominated German scholarship on the Indian texts. Indology functions as a test case for wider concerns: the rise of historicism, the displacement of philosophical concerns from thinking, and the belief in the ability of a technical method to produce truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the historical evidence of the first part of the book, Adluri and Bagchee make a case in the second part for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic scholarship and the objections of its post-structuralist or post-Orientalist critics. By contrasting German Indology with Plato's concern for virtue and Gandhi's focus on praxis, the authors argue for a conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns and between eastern and western cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199931364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199931361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 813","brand":"Vishwa Adluri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054742630655,"sku":"9780199931361","price":67.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82ddb179-d31a-4afb-9edc-0cbe08615878.jpg?v=1685031732","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nay-science-vishwa-adluri-9780199931361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}