The Nay Science
A History of German Indology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 July 2014
- ISBN 9780199931347
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 163x234x30 mm
- Weight 839 g
- Language English 0
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In The Nay Science, Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.
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Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. Analyzing the intellectual contexts of this scholarship, beginning with theological debates that centered on Martin Luther's solefidian doctrine and proceeding to scientific positivism via analyses of disenchantment (Entzauberung), German Romanticism, pantheism (Pantheismusstreit), and historicism, they show how each of these movements progressively shaped German philology's encounter with the Indian epic. They demonstrate that, from the mid-nineteenth century on, this scholarship contributed to the construction of a supposed "Indo-Germanic" past, which Germans shared racially with the Mahabharata's warriors. Building on nationalist yearnings and ongoing Counter-Reformation anxieties, scholars developed the premise of Aryan continuity and supported it by a "Brahmanical hypothesis," according to which supposedly later strata of the text represented the corrupting work of scheming Brahmin priests.
Adluri and Bagchee focus on the work of four Mahabharata scholars and eight scholars of the Bhagavad Gita, all of whom were invested in the idea that the text-critical task of philology as a scientific method was to identify a text's strata and interpolations so that, by displaying what had accumulated over time, one could recover what remained of an original or authentic core. The authors show that the construction of pseudo-histories for the stages through which the Mahabharata had supposedly passed provided German scholars with models for two things: 1) a convenient pseudo-history of Hinduism and Indian religions more generally; and 2) a platform from which to say whatever they wanted to about the origins, development, and corruption of the Mahabharata text. The book thus challenges contemporary scholars to recognize that the ''Brahmanic hypothesis'' (the thesis that Brahmanic religion corrupted an original, pure and heroic Aryan ethical and epical worldview), an unacknowledged tenet of much Western scholarship to this day, was not and probably no longer can be an innocuous thesis. The ''corrupting'' impact of Brahmanical ''priestcraft,'' the authors show, served German Indology as a cover under which to disparage Catholics, Jews, and other ''Semites.''
[A]n important work of hermeneutic analysis
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A History of German Indology
The History of German Indology as a History of Method
The Origins of the Historical-Critical Method in Neo-Protestantism of the 18th Century
The Origins of Philology in the Argument for the Immortality of the Soul
Defining the Scope of Inquiry
Plan of Study
Chapter 1: Historical Identity and Narrative Constructs in an Indo-Germanic Setting
The Birth of German Mahabharata Studies
The Indo-Germanic Original Epic:
The Buddhist Poetic Composition
Buddhism and Protestantism
Protestantism, the Counter-Reformation, and the Prosecution of Heresy
The Twin Brahmanic Redactions
Brahmanism and Catholicism
Return to the Problem of Textual Reconstruction
Chapter 2: Text-Historical Reconstruction and the Struggle for an Objective Canon
The Bhagavad Gita in German Indology
The Theistic Gita: Richard Garbe
The Epic Gita: Hermann Jacobi
A Practical Gita: Hermann Oldenberg
The Trinitarian Gita: Rudolf Otto
The Soldier's Gita: Theodor Springmann
The Aryan Gita: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer
The Brahmanic Gita: Georg von Simson
What is the German Gita?: A Review
Chapter 3: German Indology in the Context of the European Geisteswissenschaften
Problems with the Critical Method
The Scientification of Protestant Theology in the Critical Method
The Secularization of Protestant Theology in the Study of the History of Religions
The Institutionalization of Protestant Theology in Indology
Three Notions of Science: Positivism, Historicism, and Empiricism
Criticisms of the Positivistic Notion of Truth
From Historicism to Hermeneutics
Conclusion
Writing under Erasure
Creating the Object of Scientific Research
Honest Heretics or Neo-Brahmins?
Afterword: Gandhi on the Gita Problem
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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