West Meets East: Schopenhauer and India

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There is a recent revival of interest in Schopenhauer studies in India with the impetus generated from the sincere and meticulous efforts made by IDSS in collaboration with Schopenhauer Research Center at the U of Mainz and the example is the publication of the first book on Schopenhauer and India from India in 2008. However, it is equally true that the Indian scholars have not yet put that much efforts as they perhaps should have to find a connection between Schopenhauer’s philosophy and Indian philosophy especially due to the fact that Schopenhauer had paid such great respect and homage to the Upanishads.

The book includes papers of eminent scholars providing new lights on the relationship between Schopenhauer’s philosophy and the different Indian philosophical systems such as Vedanta and Buddhism and others. Apart from this there are also papers dealing with Schopenhauer’s views on Sanskrit literature, Schopenhauer and Indian Thought, Schopenhauer in relation to Hegel and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer on Salvation, Death and Contemplation, different levels of Maya in Vedanta and Schopenhauer, Svatantryavada of Kashmir and Voluntarism of Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer’s India Notes, Schopenhauer’s reception in India and Nirvana in Germany and so on. In the publication of this Volume it is hoped that it will accelerate renewal of cross-cultural interaction amongst the scholars of East and West which will further help in mutual understanding.

Schopenhauer’s main works in German language are now almost all available in English translation but still these are not easily available in India. The publication of these new volumes on Schopenhauer and India therefore is expected to provide a rich source of research materials for the English-speaking scholars all over the world including India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arati Barua

Arati Barua is an Associate Professor and head of the Department of Philosophy, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, New Delhi. She is the Founder Director of the Indian Division of the Schopenhauer Society (IDSS). Besides being a member of various academic Societies such a Schopenhauer Gesellshaft, Germany, North American division of Schopenhauer Society (NADSS), USA and Indian Association for Canadian Studies (IACS), India etc., she is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Schopenhauer Jahrbuch, Germany. She was awarded a Faculty Research fellowship of SICI (Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute) in 2003 for her project on ‘Grant and Gandhi on technology and modernism’ to work at the University of Guelph, Canada. In 2006 she was awarded a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) fellowship by the German Research Foundation, Germany, for her collaborative research project on ‘Schopenhauer and Snakara’ to work at the Schopenhauer Research Centre, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.To her credit she has a book. ‘The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer’ and an edited volume “Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy: A Dialogue between India and Germany”. She has published research articles in reputed journals (national and international) of philosophy and her wide research interests range from the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Snakara to Michael Krausz and from George Grant to Mahatma Gandhi. Besides taking part, she has organised various national and International conferences in India and abroad.