Beschreibung:
Bradley L. Herling holds a full-time instructorship in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.
This book charts the initial interpretation of the Bhagavadgita in German intellectual circles with special attention to the way in which local philosophical and philological debates inflected its fundamental concepts.
Chapter 1-Theoretical Introduction Chapter 2-Herder and the Early Flowers of India in Germany Chapter 3-Herder Gathers the Gita's Flowers Chapter 4-The Dilemma of Pantheism in Friedrich Schlegel's Gita Chapter 5-A.W. Schlegel's "Indian Sphinx": The Riddle of Gita Translation Chapter 6-German Absorption in the Gita: von Humboldt and Hegel Chapter 7-Conclusion Bibliography