The Afterlives of the Bhagavad Gita : Readings in Translation

Figueira, Dorothy M.

Oxford University Press（2023/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 386 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198873488
• DDC分類 294.5924

Full Description

This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins with this recognition and posits translation as fundamental to any understanding of the Gita's reception. It examines in depth and compares how translations of the Gita do not seek the same aims in all places and at all times and recognizes that translation theories and methodologies are not uniform across nations and eras. Therefore, this volume looks at insolites (unusual, strange) readings of the Gita and how they seek to fill the hermeneutical gap between readings tied to its canonical and scriptural status and those that are distant from the text's tradition.

Contents

PART I: THE [IM]POSSIBILIT Y OF TRANSLATION: CAN WE TRANSLATE THE 'OTHER'?
1: Translation Theories
2: Translation and Mystification: Wilkins
3: European Linguists, Philosophers, and Intellectual Rabble-Rousers
PART II: TRANSL ATING COMMENSURABILITY, CLASS, AND CASTE
4: Brahman as the Cosmic Translator and the Gita's Potentiality in American Transcendentalism
5: Nationalism, Sedition, and Mysticism
PART III: THE DEFEAT OF TRANSLATION AND THE END OF CRITICISM
6: Gandhi's Convenient Text
7: Ambedkar's Counter-Revolutionary Gita: Historical and Political Context
PART IV: THE WESTERN WARTIME, COUNTERCULTURAL AND NEO-LIBERAL GITA
8: The Nazi Ksatriya Ethos
9: Is This What Krishna Meant?
10: What Becomes of Dharma in a Conquered Country?
11: The Beats, the Monk, and Multicultural Artists
Epilogue
Bibliography