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(University of Sussex)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 300 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x162x25 mm, kaal: 610 g, One map
  • Sari: The Oxford History of Philosophy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199218749
  • ISBN-13: 9780199218745
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 300 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x162x25 mm, kaal: 610 g, One map
  • Sari: The Oxford History of Philosophy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199218749
  • ISBN-13: 9780199218745
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The Lost Age of Reason deals with a fascinating and rich episode in the history of philosophy, one from which those who are interested in the nature of modernity and its global origins have a great deal to learn. Early modernity in India consists in the formation of a new philosophical self, one which makes it possible meaningfully to conceive of oneself as engaging the ancient and the alien in conversation. The ancient texts are now not thought of as authorities to which one must defer, but regarded as the source of insight in the company of which one pursues the quest for truth. This new attitude implies a change in the conception of ones duties towards the past. After reconstructing the historical intellectual context in detail, and developing a suitable methodological framework, Ganeri reviews work on the concept of knowledge, the nature of evidence, the self, the nature of the categories, mathematics, realism, and a new language for philosophy. A study of early modern philosophy in India has much to teach us today - about the nature of modernity as such, about the reform of educational institutions and its relationship to creative research, and about cosmopolitan identities in circumstances of globalisation.

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Jonardon Ganeri's book is a treasure trove of new insights and fascinating figures that leaves this reader craving much more. He weaves a rich tapestry where ideas come to life, reinvigorating our understanding of Indian philosophy and the important lessons it can teach us today. The book is refreshing and exciting . . . Those hoping to benefit from rich historical exploration will not be disappointed; nor, more importantly, will those looking to learn something more about the philosophical issues at hand, such as new insights into reason, metaphysics, and the self. * Thom Brooks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * brilliant . . . Anyone interested in learning about early modern Indian philosophy will have the best work I know of on the subject in their hands. And those interested more in the philosophical issues than in comparing traditions will also profit greatly. . . Ganeri's book is a fascinating view of Indian philosophy and how its insights have genuine relevance for contemporary debates. I could not recommend it more highly. * Thom Brooks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

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Winner of Awarded the Specialist Publication Accolade, by the the ICAS Reading Committee.
Chronology ix
Principal Philosophers Discussed xi
Map
xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Part I India Expanding
11(50)
1 The World and India: 1656
13(9)
Francois Bernier and his pandi
13(3)
The public profile of the `new reason'
16(6)
2 Dara Shukoh: A Spacious Islam
22(9)
Migrating texts
22(1)
Translating Sanskrit into Persian
23(1)
A religious cosmopolitanism
24(2)
Meeting of two oceans
26(2)
Another affinity
28(3)
3 The Cosmopolitan Vision of Yasovijaya Gani
31(8)
Studying the `new reason' in Varanas
32(1)
Secular intellectual values
33(2)
Reflections on the self
35(1)
Yasovijaya and Dara Shukoh: a cosmopolitan ideal
36(3)
4 Navadvipa: A Place of Hindu-Muslim Confluence in Bengal
39(22)
A Bengali sultanate independent of Delhi
40(1)
The curious biography of a teacher
41(3)
Raghunatha Siromani (c.1460--1540)
44(7)
The final years of Navadvipa
51(10)
Part II Text and Method
61(56)
5 Contextualism in The Study of Indian Philosophical Literature
63(11)
Quentin Skinner and performative speech-acts
63(2)
Intertextual intervention
65(3)
Prolepsis and anticipation
68(2)
Cultural indexicals
70(2)
Immersion and Indian intellectual practice
72(2)
6 Philosophers outside Academies: Networks
74(15)
The new reason and the court of Akbar
75(4)
A less embedded network
79(2)
A Navadvipa-based network
81(3)
Rivalry over Raghunitha
84(1)
New developments in Navadvipa
85(4)
7 An Analysis of the New Reason's Literary Artefacts
89(13)
Commentaries
91(4)
Internal critiques of Valsesika metaphysics
95(1)
Research monographs
96(2)
Manuals for new students
98(4)
8 Commentary and Creativity
102(15)
Commentary as mediating a conversation with the past
102(2)
Towards a typology of commentary
104(3)
Commmentary as weaving a text
107(5)
The singly authored principles-and-gloss text
112(5)
Part III The Possibility of Inquiry
117(46)
9 Inquiry: The History of a Crisis
119(12)
Inquiry in the knowledge disciplines
119(3)
Inquiry in early Nyaya
122(3)
Ways of gaining knowledge
125(2)
Sriharsa's `refutations'
127(4)
10 Challenge From the Ritualists
131(14)
Scepticism and truth in the Gemstone
131(4)
Two models of inquiry
135(4)
An intrinsicist theory of error in action
139(3)
Knowing naturalized
142(3)
11 Interventions in a New Research Programme
145(18)
Difficulties in Gangesa's theory
145(2)
The Precions Jewel of Reason: a genealogical state-of-research review
147(2)
Self-conscious modernities
149(4)
The weight of evidence
153(4)
A method for rightly conducting reason in the Garland of Principles
157(6)
Part IV The Real World
163(58)
12 Realism in Question
165(16)
The reach of Vaisesika realism
165(3)
Realism and reference
168(2)
Grades of existence
170(2)
Epistemic constraints on the concept of truth
172(3)
`Whatever is, is knowable and nameable'
175(4)
Realism and reduction
179(2)
13 New Foundations in the Metaphysics of Mathematics
181(19)
Mathematics and the philosophical theory of number
181(1)
Counting and construction
182(5)
Numbers as properties of objects
187(4)
Indefinite pluralities
191(3)
Raghunatha's non-reductive realism
194(6)
14 Metaphysics in a Different Key
200(21)
Raghunatha's challenge
200(1)
Naturalism and reductionism in the Essence of Reason
201(5)
Escaping the oscillation between eliminativism and non-reductivism
206(5)
The Garland of Categories: naturalism and reduction
211(3)
Mechanical philosophy in the Garland of Categories?
214(7)
Part V A New Language for Philosophy
221(23)
15 The Technical Language Assessed
223(14)
The importance of disambiguation
224(2)
The syntax of the formal system
226(2)
A semantics for the language
228(2)
Repairing ordinary language
230(2)
The new language and the predicate calculus
232(5)
16 Rival Logics of Domain Restriction
237(7)
Analysis from Buddhist sources
238(2)
The early modern theory: a unified account
240(4)
Conclusion 244(8)
Recommended Further Readings 252(2)
Bibliography 254(25)
Index 279
Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher who draws upon Indian, European and Ango-American sources in his work. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He read Mathematics at Cambridge before commencing graduate studies in Philosophy at London and Oxford. He has been a Jacobsen Fellow in Philosophy at King's College London and a Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge. As well as teaching at various Universities in Britain, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.