[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Talk at IIWC Bangalore - this evening

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Together with Joydeep Bagchee, Vishwa Adluri is the author of "The Nay
Science: A History of German Indology (OUP India, 2017) "
This book among other than topics, examines the implicit Christian
theological lens through which Indian texts like the Mahabharata were
analysed by many Indologists while maintaining a veneer of secular
critique. (The critical method was used by these German Indologists as a
way of making theological claims against rival philosophical and/or
religious traditions.(presumably as a means of establishing the superiority
of Christian theology )).

Excerpted from (possibly) the blurb
"This title offers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in
the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the
Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita as its example, the book develops a
critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities.
The book shows how, from its origins in eighteenth-century
Neo-Protestantism onwards, *the critical method was used as a way of making
theological claims against rival philosophical and/or religious traditions.*
Via discussions of German Romanticism, the pantheism controversy,
scientific positivism, and empiricism, they show how theological concerns
dominated German scholarship on the Indian texts. Indology functions as a
test case for wider concerns: the rise of historicism, the displacement of
philosophical concerns from thinking, and the belief in the ability of a
technical method to produce truth. Based on the historical evidence of the
first part of the book, Adluri and Bagchee make a case in the second part
for going beyond both the critical pretensions of modern academic
scholarship and the objections of its post-structuralist or
post-Orientalist critics. By contrasting German Indology with Plato's
concern for virtue and Gandhi's focus on praxis, the authors argue for a
conception of the humanities as a dialogue between the ancients and moderns
and between eastern and western cultures.


On Tue 14 Aug, 2018, 1:02 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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> From: K S Kannan <ks.kannan.2000 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:14 AM
> Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Talk at IIWC Bangalore - this evening
> To: bvparishat <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> *Dr. Vishwa Adluri* will be speaking on
> *"The Mahābhārata: The Principal Monument to Bhakti"*
> The talk will be for an hour and a half duration (6 pm to 7.30 pm)
> followed by Questions and Answers.
>
> Venue: *Indian Institute of World Culture, Wadia Hall.*
> Date : *14th August (Tuesday), 2018*
> Time: *6 pm*
>
> *About the Topic:*
> The Mahābhārata has been approached typically under one of two rubrics:
> either history or myth. In this lecture, Professor Vishwa Adluri  shows why
> neither approach does justice to the Sanskrit work’s transformative
> intellectual-aesthetic project of making Brahman cognitively accessible and
> experientially relatable in its saguṇa form—as Nārāyaṇa and Hari.
>
> *About the Speaker:*
> Vishwa Adluri is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Hunter
> College, New York. He holds PhDs in Philosophy, Indology, and Sanskrit, and
> has published monographs, and edited volumes and articles on the
> Mahābhārata. Together with Joydeep Bagchee, he is the author of The Nay
> Science: A History of German Indology (OUP India, 2017) and Philology and
> Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Anthem, 2018).
>
> The speaker has worked on the Mahabharata for over 15 years.
> He has academically confronted many Western distortions of the great work.
>
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