The Indo-German identification: reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885/ Robert Cowan.
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305.80943 CHA/G German racism: an old or new disease/ | 305.80951 XUY/E Ethnic minorities of China/ | 305.80954 SAN/C Culture, society and development in India: essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi/ | 305.831009034 COW/T The Indo-German identification: reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885/ | 305.85 KYM/M Multiculturalism in Asia/ | 305.854 LEC/E Ethnic revival and religious turmoil: identities and representations in the Himalayas/ | 305.85405493 SEN/I Identity, consciousness and the past: forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka/ |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. 2006--CUNY Graduate Center) under title The Indo-Germans : an Aryan romance.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-218) and index.
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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