{"product_id":"the-german-gita-bradley-l-herling-9780415976169","title":"The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did the \u003cem\u003eBhagavadgãtà\u003c\/em\u003e first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the \u003cem\u003eBhagavadgãtà\u003c\/em\u003e around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the \u003cem\u003eBhagavadgãtà\u003c\/em\u003e and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley L. Herling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415976162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415976169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.22w x 0.98d","brand":"Bradley L. Herling","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482434265343,"sku":"9780415976169","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66b817bb-00c4-4252-b3de-865ed3786b29.jpg?v=1715998521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-german-gita-bradley-l-herling-9780415976169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}