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The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo: Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion (Routledge Hindu Studies Series) - Softcover

Book 25 of 40: Routledge Hindu Studies

Prince, Brainerd

 
9781138347540: The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo: Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113834754X ISBN 13: 9781138347540
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical traditions. The central argument is that Aurobindo’s integral philosophy is best understood as a hermeneutical philosophy of religion.

Such an understanding of Aurobindo’s philosophy, offering both substantive and methodological insights for the academic study of religion, subdivides into three interrelated aims. The first is to demonstrate that the power of the Aurobindonian vision lies in its self-conception as a traditionary-hermeneutical enquiry into religion; the second, to draw substantive insights from Aurobindo’s enquiry to envision a way beyond the impasse within the current religious-secular debate in the academic study of religion. Working out of the condition of secularism, the dominant secularists demand the abandonment of the category ‘religion’ and the dismantling of the academic discipline of religious studies. Aurobindo’s integral work on ‘religion’, arising out of the Vedānta tradition, critiques the condition of secularity that undergirds the religious-secular debate. Finally, informed by the hermeneutical tradition and building on the methodological insights from Aurobindo's integral method, the book explores a hermeneutical approach for the study of religion which is dialogical in nature.

This book will be of interest to academics studying Religious Studies, Philosophy of Religion, Continental Hermeneutics, Modern India, Modern Hinduism as well as South Asian Studies.

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About the Author

Brainerd Prince is a Visiting Research Tutor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK. He is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, a Recognized Independent Centre of Oxford University, UK, and the Founding Director of the Samvada Centre for Research Resources, New Delhi, India.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113834754X
ISBN 13 
9781138347540
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264