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9780199658596

The Concealed Art of the Soul Theories of the Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology

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    9780199658596

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    0199658595

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-02-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about the nature of the soul, but should also engage the reader in a process of study and contemplation that will eventually lead to self-transformation. By combining careful attention tophilosophical content and sensitivity to literary form, Ganeri deepens our understanding of some of the greatest works in Indian literary history, and argues that many Western theories of selfhood are not only present in these writings, but are developed to a high degree of sophistication.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents


PART I - SOUL-SEARCHERS AND SOOTH-SAYERS
1. Hidden in the cave: the Upanisadic self
2. Dangerous truths: the Buddha on silence, secrecy and snakes
3. A cloak of clever words: the deconstruction of deceit in the Mahabharata
PART II - EXHORTATIONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT
4. Words that burn: why did the Buddha say what he did?
5. Words that break: can an Upanisad state the truth?
PART III - A SELFLESS PERSON'S SENSE OF SELF
6. The imperfect reality of rersons
7. Self as performance
APPENDICES
TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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