TY  - GEN
T1  - The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885
T2  - Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
A1  - Cowan, Robert, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, N.Y.
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn659770891
AB  - In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany's cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from 'Indomania' to Indophobia when the attempt foundered. The philosophers Hegel, Schopenhauer, and, later, Nietzsche provided alternate views of the role of India in world history that would be disastrously misappropriated in the twentieth century. Reconstructing Hellenistic and humanist views of the ancient Brahmins and Goths, French-Enlightenment debates over the postdiluvian origins of the arts and sciences, and the Indophilia and protonationalism of Herder, Robert Cowan focuses on turning points in the development of an 'Indo-German' ideal, an ideal less focused on intellectual imperialism than many studies of the 'Aryan Myth' and Orientalism would have us believe. Cowan argues that the study of this ideal continues to offer lessons about cultural difference in the 'post-national' twenty-first century. Of great interest to historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, this cross-cultural study offers a new understanding of the Indo-German story by showing that attempts to establish identity necessarily involve a reconciliation of origins and destinies, of self and other, of individual and collective. Robert Cowan is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York.
OP  - 225
CN  - DD61.8 .C69 2010eb
SN  - 9781571137173
SN  - 1571137173
SN  - 9781571134639
SN  - 1571134638
KW  - Germany : Civilization : Indic influences.
KW  - National characteristics, German : History : 19th century.
KW  - Intellectuals : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Germany : Intellectual life : 19th century.
KW  - India : Foreign public opinion, German.
KW  - Germany : Relations : India.
KW  - India : Relations : Germany.
KW  - Ideals (Philosophy) : Social aspects : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Public opinion : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Allemands : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Intellectuels : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Allemagne : Vie intellectuelle : 19e siècle.
KW  - Idéaux (Philosophie) : Aspect social : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Opinion publique : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : German.
KW  - Civilization : Indic influences
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - International relations
KW  - National characteristics, German
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Public opinion, German
KW  - Germany
KW  - India
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -