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

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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Main Author: Cowan, Robert, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
National characteristics, German > History > 19th century.
Intellectuals > Germany > History > 19th century.
Ideals (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Germany > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > Germany > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Civilization > Indic influences
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
International relations
National characteristics, German
Public opinion
Public opinion, German
Germany > Civilization > Indic influences.
Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
India > Foreign public opinion, German.
Germany > Relations > India.
India > Relations > Germany.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Germany
India
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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