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The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885, Robert Cowan
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- Summary
- In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany's cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from 'Indomania' to Indophobia when the attempt foundered. The philosophers Hegel, Schopenhauer, and, later, Nietzsche provided alternate views of the role of India in world history that would be disastrously misappropriated in the twentieth century. Reconstructing Hellenistic and humanist views of the ancient Brahmins and Goths, French-Enlightenment debates over the postdiluvian origins of the arts and sciences, and the Indophilia and protonationalism of Herder, Robert Cowan focuses on turning points in the development of an 'Indo-German' ideal, an ideal less focused on intellectual imperialism than many studies of the 'Aryan Myth' and Orientalism would have us believe. Cowan argues that the study of this ideal continues to offer lessons about cultural difference in the 'post-national' twenty-first century. Of great interest to historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, this cross-cultural study offers a new understanding of the Indo-German story by showing that attempts to establish identity necessarily involve a reconciliation of origins and destinies, of self and other, of individual and collective. Robert Cowan is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Contents
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- Introduction: History is personal
- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765
- pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s
- As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art
- Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation
- pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social degeneration, 1790s-1808
- Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala
- Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda
- Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion
- pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885
- Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings"
- Schopenhauer's justification for good
- Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources
- Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004
- Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political
- Isbn
- 9781571134639
- Label
- The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885
- Title
- The Indo-German identification
- Title remainder
- reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Cowan
- Subject
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- India -- Foreign public opinion, German
- India -- Relations -- Germany
- Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- National characteristics, German -- History -- 19th century
- Public opinion -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Germany -- Civilization | Indic influences
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Germany -- Relations -- India
- Ideals (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany's cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from 'Indomania' to Indophobia when the attempt foundered. The philosophers Hegel, Schopenhauer, and, later, Nietzsche provided alternate views of the role of India in world history that would be disastrously misappropriated in the twentieth century. Reconstructing Hellenistic and humanist views of the ancient Brahmins and Goths, French-Enlightenment debates over the postdiluvian origins of the arts and sciences, and the Indophilia and protonationalism of Herder, Robert Cowan focuses on turning points in the development of an 'Indo-German' ideal, an ideal less focused on intellectual imperialism than many studies of the 'Aryan Myth' and Orientalism would have us believe. Cowan argues that the study of this ideal continues to offer lessons about cultural difference in the 'post-national' twenty-first century. Of great interest to historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, this cross-cultural study offers a new understanding of the Indo-German story by showing that attempts to establish identity necessarily involve a reconciliation of origins and destinies, of self and other, of individual and collective. Robert Cowan is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cowan, Robert
- Dewey number
- 305.83/1009034
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DD61.8
- LC item number
- .C69 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- National characteristics, German
- Intellectuals
- Ideals (Philosophy)
- Public opinion
- Germany
- Germany
- India
- Germany
- India
- Label
- The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885, Robert Cowan
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
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- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Introduction: History is personal -- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765 -- pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s -- As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art -- Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation -- pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social degeneration, 1790s-1808 -- Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala -- Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda -- Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion -- pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885 -- Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings" -- Schopenhauer's justification for good -- Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources -- Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004 -- Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political
- Control code
- CR9781571137173
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571134639
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885, Robert Cowan
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: History is personal -- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765 -- pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s -- As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art -- Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation -- pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social degeneration, 1790s-1808 -- Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala -- Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda -- Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion -- pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885 -- Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings" -- Schopenhauer's justification for good -- Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources -- Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004 -- Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political
- Control code
- CR9781571137173
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571134639
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- India -- Foreign public opinion, German
- India -- Relations -- Germany
- Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- National characteristics, German -- History -- 19th century
- Public opinion -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Germany -- Civilization | Indic influences
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Germany -- Relations -- India
- Ideals (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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