The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885 /

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 'I...

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Kaituhi matua: Cowan, Robert, 1971-
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House 2010.
Rangatū:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81m66
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • Introduction: History is personal
  • Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765
  • pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s
  • As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art
  • Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation
  • pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social degeneration, 1790s-1808
  • Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala
  • Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda
  • Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion
  • pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885
  • Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings"
  • Schopenhauer's justification for good
  • Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources
  • Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004
  • Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political.