{"product_id":"the-nay-science-a-history-of-german-indology-9780199931347","title":"The Nay Science: A History of German Indology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vishwa Adluri | Joydeep Bagchee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nay Science \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a new perspective on the problem of scientific method in the human sciences. Taking German Indological scholarship on the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eBhagavadgita\u003c\/em\u003e as their example, Adluri and Bagchee develop a critique of the modern valorization of method over truth in the humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890666750103,"sku":"9780199931347","price":14691.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199931347.webp?v=1781180858","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-nay-science-a-history-of-german-indology-9780199931347","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}