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Reality, Religion, and Passion
Indian and Western Approaches in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami
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2009
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The problem of radical doubt has threatened the commitment to ultimate truth in many cultures and periods. In Reality, Religion, and Passion, Jessica Frazier compares two thinkers who sought to restore philosophy's passion for truth in cultures threatened by the dispassion of radical doubt. In these complementary but divergent philosophies from Europe and India, each grounded in a transcendental metaphysics that sees consciousness as the basis of reality, two different ethics of vitality and passion take shape. Frazier shows how Heidegger's heir, Hans-Georg Gadamer, uses metaphysical insights borrowed from Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger as the ground for an ethics of 'play' which casts a uniquely positive light on the finitude and flux of the postmodern world-view. Complementing this continental European position, the work of Rupa Gosvami, a poet-theologian of early modern India develops a similar analysis of phenomenal reality into a philosophy not of play, but of passion. From Gadamer's philosophers and poets, to Gosvami's amorous goddess Radha, both visions see salvation in a renewed passion for truth. This journey toward a viable philosophy of life touches on a range of debates in Western philosophy and Indian religion, including the nature of philosophical and religious truths, the perceived goals of philosophy, the history of emotion in reason and religion, and the development of phenomenological accounts of subjectivity. It establishes a model for comparative philosophical methodology, and aims to contribute to a multicultural history of religious and philosophical reasoning. Above all, this book addresses Badiou's challenge to rediscover 'the passion of the real' and Heidegger's injunction to all thinkers to 'seek the word that is able to call one to faith.'
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2440-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3219-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
267
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Acknowledgments No access
Notes on Presentation No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Part I—Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Gadamer in the Realist Debate No access
Chapter 2: Gadamer’s Ontology of Telos No access
Chapter 3: Gadamer’s Ethics of Play No access
Part II—Introduction No access
Chapter 4: The Realist Debate in Indian Philosophy No access
Chapter 5: Rupa Gosvami’s Ontology of Rasa No access
Chapter 6: Rupa Gosvami’s Ethics of Passion No access
