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: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284365
• ISBN-10: 0857284363
• Artikelnr.: 34444298

Autorenporträt

Federico Squarcini

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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