1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791564903321

Autore

Nicholson Andrew J

Titolo

Unifying Hinduism [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history / / Andrew J. Nicholson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-87241-9

9786612872419

0-231-52642-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

South Asia across the disciplines

Disciplina

181.4

294.509

Soggetti

Hinduism - History

India Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF VEDĀNTA -- 3. VIJÑĀNABHIKṢU'S "DIFFERENCE AND NON-DIFFERENCE" VEDĀNTA -- 4. A HISTORY OF GOD IN SĀṂKHYA AND YOGA -- 5. READING AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE SĀṂKHYASŪTRAS -- 6. YOGA, PRAXIS, AND LIBERATION -- 7. VEDĀNTA AND SĀṂKHYA IN THE ORIENTALIST IMAGINATION -- 8. DOXOGRAPHY, CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMES, AND CONTESTED HISTORIES -- 9. AFFIRMERS (ĀSTIKAS) AND DENIERS (NĀSTIKAS) IN INDIAN HISTORY -- 10. HINDU UNITY AND THE NON-HINDU OTHER -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as



separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality.Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793294803321

Autore

Francastel Pierre

Titolo

Frontières du Gothique / / Pierre Francastel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris ; ; La Haye : , : Mouton & Co., , [1970]

©1970

ISBN

3-11-166996-3

Edizione

[[Réimpression de l'éd. 1945. Maison des sciences de l'homme]. Reprint 2018]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Publications de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme ; ; 9

Disciplina

704.9482094359580902

Soggetti

Art, Gothic - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PRÉFACE DE LA SECONDE ÉDITION -- AVERTISSEMENT -- CHAPITRE PREMIER. Histoire de-l'Art et Propagande -- CHAPITRE II. Une revendication historique : le Gothique -- CHAPITRE III. L'art gothique en Alsace : le problème du style de transition -- CHAPITRE IV. Liège et Cologne : le problème mosan -- CHAPITRE V. Art roman, génie germanique et sang barbare -- CHAPITRE VI. Chevaliers allemands et moines français en Pologne au début du Moyen-Age -- CHAPITRE VII. Dantsig, tes Teutoniquea, 'la Hanse et l'expansion flamande en Baltique



-- CHAPITRE VIII. L'Allemagne et la colonisation urbaine en Pologne : Cracooie et Nuremberg -- CHAPITRE IX. Le Baroque art allemand : Allemagne et Italie en Europe Centrale -- NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES -- TABLE DES ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLE DES MATIÈRES