reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885 /
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Robert Cowan.
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Rochester, N.Y. :
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Camden House,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
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1 online resource (x, 225 pages).
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index.
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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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22573/ctt22qp1
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270700
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Indo-German identification.
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9781571134639
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ideals (Philosophy)-- Social aspects-- Germany-- History-- 19th century.
Intellectuals-- Germany-- History-- 19th century.
National characteristics, German-- History-- 19th century.
Public opinion-- Germany-- History-- 19th century.