The Sense of Adharma
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 June 1994
- ISBN 9780195083415
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 163x233x23 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones 0
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Short description:
This is a study of the contrasting Hindu concepts of adharma (chaos) and dharma (order). Glucklich uses a synthesis of phenomenological and anthropological approaches to study the structure of the imagination that produces such an apparently contradictory worldview, and how that worldview is fashioned from the Hindu attitude toward the body.
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Addressing one of the most difficult conceptual topics in the study of classical Hinduism, Ariel Glucklich presents a rigorous phenomenology of dharma, or order. The work moves away from the usual emphasis on symbols and theoretical formulations of dharma as a religious and moral norm. Instead, it focuses on images that emerge from the basic experiential interaction of the body in its spatial and temporal contexts, such as the sensation of water on the skin during the morning purification, or the physical manipulation of the bride during the marriage ritual. Images of dharma are examined in myths, rituals, art, and even the physical landscape of the Hindu world. The varied and contingent experiences of dharma infuse it with a meaning that transcends a false analytical distinction from adharma, or chaos. Glucklich shows that when dharma is experienced by means of living images, it becomes inescapably temporal, and therefore inseparable from adharma.
Glucklich's Indological scholarship is thorough and expansive and his detailed accounts of myths and rituals of dharma make this a work of lasting value for researchers. Just as important, his innovative use of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology should have an immediate theoretical impact on the study of religion.
