Signless Signification In Ancient India And Beyond
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Signless Signification In Ancient India And Beyond
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Author : Tiziana Pontillo
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Signless Signification In Ancient India And Beyond written by Tiziana Pontillo and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals and speculative patterns. This collection brings an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of possible relationships between different cultural and linguistic systems of signification.
The Origin And Significance Of Zero
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-03-11
The Origin And Significance Of Zero written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-11 with Philosophy categories.
Zero has been axial in human development, but the origin and discovery of zero has never been satisfactorily addressed by a comprehensive, systematic and above all interdisciplinary research program. In this volume, over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & the sciences. Some propose that the invention/discovery of zero may have been facilitated by the prior evolution of a sophisticated concept of Nothingness or Emptiness (as it is understood in non-European traditions); and conversely, inhibited by the absence of, or aversion to, such a concept of Nothingness in the West. But not all scholars agree. Join the debate.
Keywords For India
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Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Keywords For India written by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.
Ganges
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Author : Sudipta Sen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Ganges written by Sudipta Sen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with History categories.
A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river's first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world's largest and most densely populated river basins.
Living With Concepts
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Author : Andrew Brandel
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Living With Concepts written by Andrew Brandel and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Social Science categories.
This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language. Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed and showing how the supposed need to grasp reality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. Contributors: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal
Esoteric Theravada
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Author : Kate Crosby
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2020-12-22
Esoteric Theravada written by Kate Crosby and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with Religion categories.
A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.
Textures Of The Ordinary
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Author : Veena Das
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Textures Of The Ordinary written by Veena Das and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Social Science categories.
How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Instead, we must learn to see what eludes us in the everyday precisely because it is before our eyes. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. With questions returned to repeatedly throughout the text and over a lifetime, this book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.
Proceedings Of The 15th World Sanskrit Conference
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Author : Radhavallabh Tripathi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Proceedings Of The 15th World Sanskrit Conference written by Radhavallabh Tripathi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Philosophy, Indic categories.
Papers presented at the Vyākaraṇa Section of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference.
Enzyklop Die Philosophie Und Wissenschaftstheorie
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Author : Jürgen Mittelstraß
language : de
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Release Date : 2024-03-15
Enzyklop Die Philosophie Und Wissenschaftstheorie written by Jürgen Mittelstraß and has been published by Springer-Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with Science categories.
Die »Enzyklopädie Philosophie- und Wissenschaftstheorie«, das größte allgemeine Nachschlagewerk zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum, wurde 1980 begonnen und 1996 mit dem vierten Band abgeschlossen. Sie erschien 2005 bis 2018 in einer komplett aktualisierten und erweiterten 8-bändigen Neuauflage, die hiermit nun in einer kartonierten Sonderausgabe vorliegt. Die »Enzyklopädie« umfasst in Sach- und Personenartikeln nicht nur den klassischen Bestand des philosophischen Wissens, sondern auch die neuere Entwicklung der Philosophie, insbesondere in den Bereichen Logik, Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie sowie Sprachphilosophie. Zugleich finden Grundlagenreflexionen in den Wissenschaften und deren Geschichte ausführliche Berücksichtigung. Die umfassenden Bibliographien und Werkverzeichnisse wurden für die 2. Auflage in allen Artikeln auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.
2012 2015
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Author : Коллектив авторов
language : ru
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-01-15
2012 2015 written by Коллектив авторов and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with Social Science categories.
Сборник исследовательских статей представляет итог последних лет (2012–2015 гг.) ежегодных Рериховских чтений, проводившихся в Институте востоковедения с 1960 года и посвященных памяти выдающегося тибетолога, индолога и специалиста по Центральной Азии Ю. Н. Рериха. Рассматривая памятники древней и средневековой культуры, составлявшие классическую «Индо-тибетику», авторы статей выходят на широкий круг новейшей проблематики, прежде всего на современные подходы к понятию «текст» на материале малоисследованных древних и средневековых подлинных текстов – ведийских, санскритских, палийских, тибетских, тамильских, непальских, китайских, японских. Дискуссии о трансформации смыслов и диалоге между текстами способствуют формированию новой методологии современного гуманитарного знания, связанной с понятием «интертекст». Особый интерес представляет исследование и первая публикация памятников тибетской живописи из коллекции Ю. Н. Рериха.