Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sherma, Rita D. (Editor), Sharma, Arvind (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy, general.

The emergence of Hinduism as a field of study in the Western academia coincides with the development of modern hermeneutics. Despite this coemergence, and the rich possibilities inherent in a dialectical encounter between the theories of modern and pre-modern hermeneutics and those of Hindu hermeneu...

Table of Contents:

• The Hermeneutics of the Word “Religion” and Its Implications for the World of Indian Religions
• Max Müller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective
• Being and Text: Dialogic Fecundation of Western Hermeneutics and Hindu M?m?ms? in the Critical Era
• The Hermeneutic Circle and the Hermeneutic Centre
• C?turdharmya: Hermeneutics of Integrative Differentiation
• Psychological Growth and Heroic Steadfastness in the Mah?bh?rata
• Value Ethics in the Early Upani?ads: A Hermeneutic Approach
• Engagement with Sanskrit Philosophic Texts
• Truth, Diversity, and the Incomplete Project of Modern Hinduism
• The Other of Oneself: A Gadamerian Conversation with Gaud?ya Vaisnavism
• Concluding Remarks.