John Nemec

The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II (eBook, ePUB)

Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the title The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadṛ??i and his Tantric Interlocutors. The first volume offered an introduction, critical edition, and annotated translation of the first three chapters of the Sivadṛ??i of Somananda, along with its principal commentary, the Sivadṛ??ivṛtti, written by Utpaladeva. It dealt primarily with Saiva theology and the religious views of competing esoteric traditions. The present volume presents the fourth chapter of the Sivadṛ??i and Sivadṛ??ivṛtti and addresses a fresh set of issues that engage a distinct family of opposing schools and authors of mainstream Indian philosophical traditions. In this fourth chapter, Somananda and Utpaladeva engage logical and philosophical works that exerted tremendous influence in the Indian subcontinent in its premodernity. Among the authors and schools addressed by Somananda in this chapter are the Buddhist Epistemologists, and Dharmakirti in particular; the Hindu school of hermeneutics, i.e., the Mimaṃsa; the Hindu realist schools of the logic- and debate-oriented Nyaya and their ontologically-oriented partners, the Vaise?ika; and the Hindu, dualist Saṃkhya and Yoga schools. Throughout this chapter, Somananda endeavors to explain his brand of Saivism philosophically. Somananda challenges his philosophical interlocutors with a single over-arching argument: he suggests that their views cannot coherethey cannot be explained logicallyunless their authors accept the Saiva non-duality for which he advocates. The argument he offers, despite its historical influence, remains virtually unstudied. The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II offers the first English translation of Chapter Four of the Sivadṛ??i and Sivadṛ??ivṛtti along with an introduction and critical edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197566756
• Artikelnr.: 62861063

Autorenporträt

John Nemec is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
I. Introduction
II. The Translation
III. The Edition
Bibliography