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

[Nithin Sridhar]

This interview of Dr. Adluri which I did may interest the readers-
http://indiafacts.org/mahabharata-modern-scholarship-an-interview-with-dr-vishwa-adluri/

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:02 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > 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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Nithin S