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The Nay Science 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 their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities.
The authors show 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 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.
Contents
INTRODUCTION ; A HISTORY OF GERMAN INDOLOGY ; THE HISTORY OF GERMAN INDOLOGY AS A HISTORY OF METHOD ; THE ORIGINS OF THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL METHOD IN NEO-PROTESTANTISM OF THE 18TH CENTURY ; THE ORIGINS OF PHILOLOGY IN THE ARGUMENT FOR THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ; DEFINING THE SCOPE OF INQUIRY ; PLAN OF STUDY ; CHAPTER 1: HISTORICAL IDENTITY AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTS IN AN INDO-GERMANIC SETTING ; THE BIRTH OF GERMAN MAHABHARATA STUDIES ; THE INDO-GERMANIC ORIGINAL EPIC: ; THE BUDDHIST POETIC COMPOSITION ; BUDDHISM AND PROTESTANTISM ; PROTESTANTISM, THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, AND THE PROSECUTION OF HERESY ; THE TWIN BRAHMANIC REDACTIONS ; BRAHMANISM AND CATHOLICISM ; RETURN TO THE PROBLEM OF TEXTUAL RECONSTRUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: TEXT-HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AN OBJECTIVE CANON ; THE BHAGAVAD GITA IN GERMAN INDOLOGY ; THE THEISTIC GITA: RICHARD GARBE ; THE EPIC GITA: HERMANN JACOBI ; A PRACTICAL GITA: HERMANN OLDENBERG ; THE TRINITARIAN GITA: RUDOLF OTTO ; THE SOLDIER'S GITA: THEODOR SPRINGMANN ; THE ARYAN GITA: JAKOB WILHELM HAUER ; THE BRAHMANIC GITA: GEORG VON SIMSON ; WHAT IS THE GERMAN GITA?: A REVIEW ; CHAPTER 3: GERMAN INDOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN ; PROBLEMS WITH THE CRITICAL METHOD ; THE SCIENTIFICATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN THE CRITICAL METHOD ; THE SECULARIZATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS ; THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN INDOLOGY ; THREE NOTIONS OF SCIENCE: POSITIVISM, HISTORICISM, AND EMPIRICISM ; CRITICISMS OF THE POSITIVISTIC NOTION OF TRUTH ; FROM HISTORICISM TO HERMENEUTICS ; CONCLUSION ; WRITING UNDER ERASURE ; CREATING THE OBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ; HONEST HERETICS OR NEO-BRAHMINS? ; AFTERWORD: GANDHI ON THE GITA PROBLEM ; NOTES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
