| The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta Contributor(s): Chakrabarti, Arindam (Contribution by), Maharaj, Ayon (Editor), Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350063231 ISBN-13: 9781350063235 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Eastern - Religion | Eastern |
| Dewey: 181.48 |
| LCCN: 2020005772 |
| Series: Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.94 lbs) 492 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This handbook brings together a distinguished team of scholars from philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy. Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as well as the modern Vedantic views of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and Romain Rolland. The volume offers careful hermeneutic analyses of how Vedantic texts have been interpreted, and it addresses key issues and debates in Vedanta, including religious diversity, the nature of God, and the possibility of embodied liberation. Venturing into cross-philosophical and cross-cultural territory, it also brings Vedanta into dialogue with Saiva Nondualism as well as contemporary Western analytic philosophy. Highlighting current scholarly controversies and charting new paths of inquiry, this is an indispensable research guide for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Vedanta and Indian philosophy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chakrabarti, Arindam: - Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawai'i, USARam-Prasad, Chakravarthi: - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought (Palgrave, 2001), Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An outline of Indian non-realism (Routledge, 2002), Eastern Philosophy (Wiedenfield and Nicholson, 2005), India: Life, Myth and Art (Duncan Baird, 2006), which has been translated into French, Polish and Finnish, and Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2007). He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Beyond Belief and Sunday Programme.Tan, Sor-Hoon: - Sor-hoon Tan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. |
