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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461202603321

Autore

Squarcini Federico

Titolo

Tradition, veda and law : studies on South Asian classical intellectual traditions / / Federico Squarcini [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-49112-4

9786613586353

0-85728-981-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions

Disciplina

954

Soggetti

Vedic literature

Hinduism

Hindu philosophy

Hindu law

Law - India - History

India Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Understanding South Asian Cultural Production: In Search for a New Historical and Hermeneutic Awareness -- Pāṣaṇḍin, vaitaṇḍika, vedanindaka and nāstika: On Criticism, Dissenters and Polemics and the South Asian Struggle for the Semiotic Primacy of Veridiction -- Being Good is Being vaidika: On the Genesis of a Normative Criterion in the Mānavadharmaśāstra -- na mlecchabhāṣāṃ śikṣeta: On the Authority of Speech and the Modes of Social Distinction through the Medium of Language -- Punishing in public: Imposing Moral Self-Dominance in Juridical Sanskrit Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ℗‘ethic℗’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.