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Abhinavgupta: Reconsiderations
Evam: forum on indian representations 4: 1 & 2 (2006), an annual journal.
Volume four is an immense cerebral accomplishment on the genious of Abhinavagupta. This special issue of Evam showcases some of the finest scholarship on him carried out over a twenty-year period. This volume contians fresh translations, re-readings and re-assessments of his mammoth contributions to dramaturgy, literary criticism, philosophy and Sanskrit, to name a few, and Abhinavaguptss seminal contributions in shapping them. Some of the essays in this volume are being published for the first time. The broader project of Evam is precisely to engender a wider understanding of Indic traditions and Abhinavagupta perfectly illuminates such a quest.
ISSN: 0972-6160
Volume four is an immense cerebral accomplishment on the genious of Abhinavagupta. This special issue of Evam showcases some of the finest scholarship on him carried out over a twenty-year period. This volume contians fresh translations, re-readings and re-assessments of his mammoth contributions to dramaturgy, literary criticism, philosophy and Sanskrit, to name a few, and Abhinavaguptss seminal contributions in shapping them. Some of the essays in this volume are being published for the first time. The broader project of Evam is precisely to engender a wider understanding of Indic traditions and Abhinavagupta perfectly illuminates such a quest.
ISSN: 0972-6160
428 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2006
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Makarand R. Paranjape
45 books39 followersMakarand R. Paranjape is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was educated at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Masters and PhD in English. He is the author/editor of over forty books and has published over 150 book chapters, refereed papers, and academic articles. His latest publications include "The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi," "Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority," and "Body Offering," a novel. [Amazon author page]
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaran...
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaran...
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January 12, 2017
High quality discourse with an excellent collection of 21 essays. Intellectually sound with rigorous analysis and study by the contributing scholars, indigenous and foreign.
In the editors words "it would be ambitious, even foolish to claim that the purpose of this special issue on Abhinavagupta is to restore his rightful place in India's intellectual traditions or in the evolving larger cosmopolitan configurations of human thought. We know that this is impossible to attempt in slim, even slight collections of essays of this sort. But behind the more modest attempt of showcasing some fine scholarship of Abhinavagupta is the more profound aspiration, even intention, that something of the nature of a fundamental reconsideration of Indian thought, especially Abhinavagupta's contribution to it, might begin to happen or at any rate needs to happen, sooner than later."
In the editors words "it would be ambitious, even foolish to claim that the purpose of this special issue on Abhinavagupta is to restore his rightful place in India's intellectual traditions or in the evolving larger cosmopolitan configurations of human thought. We know that this is impossible to attempt in slim, even slight collections of essays of this sort. But behind the more modest attempt of showcasing some fine scholarship of Abhinavagupta is the more profound aspiration, even intention, that something of the nature of a fundamental reconsideration of Indian thought, especially Abhinavagupta's contribution to it, might begin to happen or at any rate needs to happen, sooner than later."
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