The Nay Science

Vishwa Adluri has a PhD in Philosophy from the New School and a PhD in Indology from Philipps-Universität Marburg. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion at Hunter College.; Joydeep Bagchee has a PhD in Philosophy from the New School and is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Freie Universität Berlin.

• INTRODUCTION ; A HISTORY OF GERMAN INDOLOGY ; THE HISTORY OF GERMAN INDOLOGY AS A HISTORY OF METHOD ; THE ORIGINS OF THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL METHOD IN NEO-PROTESTANTISM OF THE 18TH CENTURY ; THE ORIGINS OF PHILOLOGY IN THE ARGUMENT FOR THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ; DEFINING THE SCOPE OF INQUIRY ; PLAN OF STUDY ; CHAPTER 1: HISTORICAL IDENTITY AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTS IN AN INDO-GERMANIC SETTING ; THE BIRTH OF GERMAN MAHABHARATA STUDIES ; THE INDO-GERMANIC ORIGINAL EPIC: ; THE BUDDHIST POETIC COMPOSITION ; BUDDHISM AND PROTESTANTISM ; PROTESTANTISM, THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, AND THE PROSECUTION OF HERESY ; THE TWIN BRAHMANIC REDACTIONS ; BRAHMANISM AND CATHOLICISM ; RETURN TO THE PROBLEM OF TEXTUAL RECONSTRUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: TEXT-HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AN OBJECTIVE CANON ; THE BHAGAVAD GITA IN GERMAN INDOLOGY ; THE THEISTIC GITA: RICHARD GARBE ; THE EPIC GITA: HERMANN JACOBI ; A PRACTICAL GITA: HERMANN OLDENBERG ; THE TRINITARIAN GITA: RUDOLF OTTO ; THE SOLDIER'S GITA: THEODOR SPRINGMANN ; THE ARYAN GITA: JAKOB WILHELM HAUER ; THE BRAHMANIC GITA: GEORG VON SIMSON ; WHAT IS THE GERMAN GITA?: A REVIEW ; CHAPTER 3: GERMAN INDOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN ; PROBLEMS WITH THE CRITICAL METHOD ; THE SCIENTIFICATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN THE CRITICAL METHOD ; THE SECULARIZATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS ; THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN INDOLOGY ; THREE NOTIONS OF SCIENCE: POSITIVISM, HISTORICISM, AND EMPIRICISM ; CRITICISMS OF THE POSITIVISTIC NOTION OF TRUTH ; FROM HISTORICISM TO HERMENEUTICS ; CONCLUSION ; WRITING UNDER ERASURE ; CREATING THE OBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ; HONEST HERETICS OR NEO-BRAHMINS? ; AFTERWORD: GANDHI ON THE GITA PROBLEM ; NOTES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

[A]n important work of hermeneutic analysis