The Philosophical Traditions of India: An Appraisal

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India’s progressive emergence on the world stage, in terms unimaginable just a few decades ago, obliges us to reconsider is nutured by the West for over two thousand years: a prestigious image maybe, but also grealty reductive. as the privileged home of occult knowledge, ecstasy and asceticism, or —quite the opposite–of fabulous riches and voluptous pleasures. Rather than getting to know India, by West has preferred to dream of it: one result has been that Indian thought, albeit unanimously celebrated as the seat of the hightest wisdom, has not been granted even the smallest place on the great stage of the historyphilosophy.

The book presents the thoought of pre-modern India first and foremost by outlining the cultural parameters within which it arose and developed, and should be read: often associated with religious experience, but also essentially independent of it; sometimes differing in form and outcome, but more often very closed to Western thought, and certainly never ‘alien’.

"This is a marvellous piece of compact insight in all respects: a summary as well as a fresh view of the whole area, always sound and based on first hand experience with the material. I relly mean it when I would like to call it the best modern survey of our field at an extraordinary high level of penetration."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Raffaele Torella

Raffaele Torella is professor of Sanskrit at University of Roman "Sapienza", where he has also taught for long Indian Philosophy and Religion, and Indology. His preferred field of research are Kashmir Shaivism, linguistic speculation, Buddhist epistemology and manuscriptology. Among his main publications, there is the first critical edition and anotated English od Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijna-karika and vrtti, the fundamental theortical work of Pratybhijna Philosophy and of Hindu Tantrism as a whole (MLBD.Delhi 2002); the Italian translation of the Sivasutra with Kesemaraja's commentary (Milan 1999); Eros and emotions in India and Tibet (Einaudi, Turin 2007; in Italian).He has been the scientific responsible and co-author of the section "Science in India" in the multivolume work History of Science (Rome 2002; in Italian). Along with Bettina Baumer, he has recently origanised the first International Workshop on Utpaladeva (Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla 2010).

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Title
The Philosophical Traditions of India: An Appraisal
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8186569960
Length
269p., 23cm.
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