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On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017

On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017

Schenini, Elio
Sloterdijk, Peter
Schenini, Elio

Hardcover

Indian & South Asian HistoryIndian & South Asian Art

Publisher Price: $75.00

ISBN10: 8857236668
ISBN13: 9788857236667
Publisher: Skira
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 640
Weight: 3.35
Height: 2.10 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined India

In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, inaugurating the West's fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization. Beginning with Schlegel and the later reflections of Schopenhauer on Hinduism and Buddhism, followed by the novels of Hermann Hesse and the anthropological-psychological analyses of Carl Gustav Jung in the early 20th century, India and its traditions have inspired countless intellectuals and artists in the West. The myth of India eventually culminated in its impact upon the countercultures of the 1960s and '70s.

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