Federico Squarcini

Tradition, Veda and Law

Studies on South Asian Classical Intellectual Traditions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the 'etic' (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284365
• ISBN-10: 0857284363
• Artikelnr.: 34444298

Autorenporträt

Federico Squarcini is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florence, where he teaches the history of Indian religions.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Understanding South Asian Cultural Production. In Search for a New
Historical and Hermeneutic Awareness; II . 'Pasadin', 'vaitandika',
'vaitä¿ika' and 'nastika'. On Criticism, Dissenters and Polemics and the
South Asian Struggle for the Semiotic Primacy of Veridiction; II. Being
Good is Being 'vaidika'. On the Genesis of a Normative Criterion in the
'Manavadharmasastra'; IV. 'na mlecchabhasam sikseta'. On the Authority of
Speech and the Modes of Social Distinction through the Medium of Language;
V. Punishing in Public. Imposing Moral Self-Dominance in Juridical Sanskrit
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