German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics
Auteur : Pimenov Alexei
This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West.
The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted in the adoption of Indian models of identity and otherness and ultimately shaped German Romantic nationalism. The author illustrates how Indian influence renovated the scholarly design of German nationalism and, at the same time, became central to pre-modern and pre-nationalist models of identity, which later shaped the Aryan myth. Focusing on the scholarship of Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer, the book shows how, in explaining the fact of the diversity of languages, peoples, and cultures, the German Romantics reproduced the Indian narrative of the degradation of some Indo-Aryan clans, which led to their separation from the Aryan civilization.
An important resource for the nexus between Indology and Orientalism, German Indian Studies and studies of nationalism, this book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of history, European and South Asian area studies, philosophy, political science, and IR theory.
1. The Romantic Germanization (Verdeutschung) of the Indian Heritage 2. Britain’s Discovery of India: The Colonial Rulers and Their Fact-Finding Team 3. The German Indian Renaissance and its Historical Roots 4. Friedrich Schlegel: Indology as the Key to the National and Religious History of the World 5. Otmar Frank: A Breakthrough to the Alleged Iranian-Indian Roots of the Germans 6. Joseph Goerres: The Orient as the Source of the Urreligion and of the Staende-based German Weltstaat 7. Schopenhauer: The India-Rooted "Wisdom of All Ages" vs. the Bible-Based Monotheism
Alexei Pimenov is a historian, writer, and journalist. His academic research examines the perceptions of India in Europe, specifically within the contexts of European nationalisms.
Date de parution : 08-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 02-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; ancient Indian philosophy; Holy Mountain; Aryan civilization; Vanden Heuvel; Aryan myth; Peter Park; German Romantic nationalism; Weisheit Und Sprache Der Indier; Indian socio-political thought; Indian Political Thought; Welt Als Wille Und Vorstellung; British Indology; Common Language; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Liberation War; Wilhelm Halbfass; Schopenhauer’s Discourse; Original Monotheism; German Political Catholicism; De Nobili; Nathaniel Halhed; Schlegel’s View; Original Wisdom; Indian Outcasts; Indian Studies; German Romantic