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245 1 0 _aJ.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Indian Tradition /
_cedited by William J. Jackson.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c1992.
264 4 _c©1992
300 _a1 online resource (336 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAsian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
490 1 _aIndian Thought ;
_v2
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rEditor: William J. Jackson -- Editor's Preface /
_rEditor: William J. Jackson -- Foreword /
_rWilhelm Halbfass -- Introduction /
_rRaimon Panikkar -- Prelude Steps Toward the Whole Horizon: J.L. Mehta's Contributions to Hermeneutics /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 1 Finding Heidegger /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 2 Heidegger's Debts to Dilthey's Hermeneutics and Husserl's Phenomenology /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 3 The Nature of the Phenomenological Method /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 4 The Transformation of Phenomenology * /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 5 The Saving Leap /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 6 The Hindu Tradition: The Vedic Root /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 7 Krishna: God as Friend /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 8 From Śrī Aurobindo: Life, Language and Yoga /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 9 The will to Interpret and India's Dreaming Spirit /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 10 Understanding and Tradition /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 11 Life-Worlds, Sacrality and Interpretive Thinking /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 12 Postmodern Problems East/West: Reflections and Exchanges /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 13 "World Civilization": The Possibility of Dialogue /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- 14 Problems of Understanding * /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- Postlude Winds and the Ballast: A Collage from Letters and Taped Conversations with J. L. Mehta /
_rWilliam J. Jackson -- Bibliography and Abbreviations /
_rJ.L. Mehta -- Index /
_rEditor: William J. Jackson.
520 _aThis book presents a selection of essays by the Indian philosopher J.L. Mehta on the topics of hermeneutics and phenomenology containing many original reflections on questions of interpretation and the creative retrieval and renewal of meanings from ancient traditions. Beginning with essays on sources of modern phenomenological methods, the work goes on to articulate principles of phenomenology and to apply them to the interpretation of Hindu traditions and texts. The final group of essays consider the problems of East-West understanding and issues of intercultural relationships and the possibilities of planetary thinking. In the fourteen essays brought together here, Mehta elucidates the contributions of continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer, and interprets meanings of the Rig Veda, Krishna in the Mahabharata, and the life of Sri Aurobindo. He also critically examines Western perceptions of India as a culture steeped in its own dreams, and explores the processes of rediscovering and re- appropriating through interpretation and translation one's ideological roots. The book contains an introductory and a concluding essay by the editor, contextualizing Mehta's life and studies. Thoughtful and provocative pieces by Wilhelm Halbfass and Raimondo Panikkar lead into the main body of the work. This is an especially useful work because Mehta was a rare kind of international thinker. In his mature essays his thinking came full circle - having grown from Hindu origins, expanding through Western psychology and continental philosophy, and returning to re-assess profound questions in Indian thought.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHermeneutics. 
650 0 _aPhenomenology. 
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Indic. 
700 1 _aJackson, William J.,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tJ.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Indian Tradition.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1992.
_z9789004094888
_w(OCoLC)24375792
_w(DLC) 91031535
830 0 _aAsian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
830 0 _aIndian Thought ;
_v2.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004612754
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