Thursday, October 06, 2016

French Enlightenment vision of a universal civilization vs. Romantic German notion of an authentic nation

Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer - Page 16

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R. Raj Singh - 2016 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
In Yama's instruction to Naciketas, there is nothing comparable to Milton's descriptions of hell in Paradise Lost or Dante's details of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradise in Divina Commedia. Yama for the most part expounds on the atmanjnana (“soul-knowledge”) and its relevance to authentic human existence in “this life.” There ...

Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred ...

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Joanne Miyang Cho, ‎Eric Kurlander, ‎Douglas T McGetchin - 2013 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
Image-makers Schopenhauer often escapes the Saidians and post-colonialists who investigate the image of India in European thought. ... image ̄ of India in German Romanticism, but beyond Schopenhauer«s admiration of the UpaniÒads and the doctrine of metempsychosis, Willson does not see why and how he might ...

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The Science of the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern. Baltimore, MD: Johns ... University Press. 1998. Walsh, Judith E. Growing Up in British IndiaIndian Autobiographers on Childhood and Education under the Raj. ... A Mythical Image: The Ideal of India in German Romanticism. Durham, NC: Duke ...

Romantic Representations of British India - Page 17

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The years 1780–1850 witnessed the synchronous growth of imperialism, Romanticism and Orientalism, together with the emergence of ideas of nationhood in both ... on the sphere of European intelligence.69 The rapturous and idealizing response of German Romanticism to the representations of India communicated by the ...

German intellectuals used this Indian material to argue for their own cultural superiority over the Greco- Roman world and its French inheritors. In this way, ancient Indian Sanskrit literature proved useful for German Romanticism and Nationalism, and therefore the study of Sanskrit established a dedicated following in ...

The following quote from Johann G. Herder shows not only that the conduit metaphor can be traced back at least to 18thcentury German Romanticism, but also that it was a ... 1989: 105) As another example of the use of the conduit metaphor, consider Pennycook's (1998) discussion of British colonial language policy in India.

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories - Page 209

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Romanticism preferred the less orderly aspect of the Graeco-Roman past and looked for the exotic, the unusual, the irrational, the emotional and the imaginative ... The creation of what has been called the ideal of India in German Romanticism was also conditioned by a simmering of ideas rooted in early Greek views of India, ...

Shaswati Mazumdar, ‎Claudia Wenner, ‎Sharmistha Lahiri - 2007 - ‎Snippet view
Schlegel himself considered the religion of Christianity an essential part of Romanticism. A religious element was more dominant in German Romanticism. In comparison, Indian Romanticism, Tagore, Nirala are more secular than what one ...

Hybridity, OR the Cultural Logic of Globalization - Page 45

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Both the French Enlightenment vision of a universal civilization predicated on human rights, scientific rationalism, and material progress (the utopian version) and the Romantic German notion of an authentic national culture threatened by the spread of soulless global forms (the dystopian variant) are outdated. Taking their ...

Dante and the Orient - Page 94 - Google Books Result

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Brenda Deen Schildgen - 2002 - ‎Literary Criticism
Following Augusune, Dante acknowledges the existence in India of moral and religious practices, like asceticism and contemplation, similar to Christian observances. Yet the poet conceived of this world as beyond ...

Aida Audeh, ‎Nick Havely - 2012 - ‎Art
arguing in favour of 'universal humanity' and against a selfish pursuit of nationalist goals in India that would stupidly spurn the West and not free India from its social ills.36 We can see, then, that 'Narakvas ...

DanteSchopenhauer, and Joyce are obvious examples; Proust is a later addition. Perhaps Beckett was less a pessimist than a skeptic, insofar as the two positions can be separated. Certainly he retained a skepticism about the validity of his own judgments and understandings. Perhaps a skeptic requires judgments, ...

Middle Is Muddle - Page 91

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Perhaps Schopenhauer might have taken the aid of the hyperbole or showed the worst side of human existence in a magnifying glass. Schopenhauer gave us a demonstration with a devastating effect, Citing Dante, at the height of his argument. True, very much true indeed Dante's inferno leads us through a thousand twists ...

CHAPTER EIGHT “A WORLD WITHOUT GOD”: EMERSON AND ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER In May 1873, Charles Eliot Norton met the seventy-year-old Emerson on board the steamer Olympus, which was sailing from Liverpool to Boston. Norton encountered a vigorous Emerson who seemed quite recovered from the ...

Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to ...

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of Schopenhauer's doctrines; and the essay ends, after criticizing Schopenhauer by praisingEmerson."" Why is it that an essay whose ostensible purpose is to hold up Schopenhauer as an exemplar ends by replacing his name with that of Emerson? The antepenultimate paragraph approvingly quotes a passage from ...

Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity - Page 262

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Individuals are no exception to this law and their character, as “a self-evolving circle”, passes “from a ring imperceptibly small, ... to new and larger circles, and that without end” (Emerson 1883: 304). Contrary to Schopenhauer's crab, Emerson's shellfish escapes its shell when it becomes too small to contain it. In other words ...

On Emerson - Page 17

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Emerson's optimism had an unshakable basis in his intuition: physical facts and logic were secondary matters with him. ... end of his life Melville read sympathetically certain passages in the works ofSchopenhauer.68 An admirer of Schopenhauer — a philosopher whom Emerson called "odious"69 — would hardly approve.

Emerson's influence on Nietzsche was enormous and can be compared to that of Schopenhauer in depth and extent. Both Emerson and Schopenhauer were important in forming Nietzsche as a philosopher and thinker, and effects of this early influence, reinforced by later reading, reverberated throughout his whole life and ...

Nietzsche and Emerson: An Elective Affinity - Page 29

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Like SchopenhauerEmerson was receptive to the influence of oriental philosophy. In "Illusions" in particular, he comes close to an aspect of the former's thought by counseling a liberation from the "kingdom of illusions," a liberation from ...

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