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This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit translations of classical Indian thought became available for the first time. Almost overnight India became the centre of a major controversy concerning the origins of western religious and intellectual culture. Working forward from this controversy, this book examines how early translations of works such as the Bhagavad Gītā and the Yoga Sūtras were caught in the crossfire of another debate concerning the rise of pantheism, as a doctrine that identifies God and nature. It shows how these theological concerns shaped the image of Indian thought in the work of Schlegel, Gunderrode, Humboldt, Hegel, Schelling, and others, lasting into the nineteenth century and beyond. Furthermore, this book explores how worries about the perceived nihilism of Yoga were addressed by key voices in the early twentieth century Indian Renaissance – notably Dasgupta, Radhakrishnan, and Bhattacharyya – who defended sophisticated counterreadings of their intellectual heritage during the colonial era. Written for non-specialists, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany will be of interest to students and scholars working on nineteenth-century philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, Hindu studies, intellectual history, and religious history.
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Keywords
- Bhattacharyya
- classical Indian thought
- Dasgupta
- Freedom
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Gītā
- Hegel
- Hinduism
- History of Western philosophy
- Humanities
- Indian philosophy
- Karoline von Günderrode
- Meditation
- Modern Philosophy
- Nihilism
- Owen Ware
- Pantheism
- Philosophy
- Radhakrishnan
- Religion & beliefs
- Schelling
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism
- Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- yoga philosophy
- Yoga Sūtras
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003376088Editions