First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India 9780197583470

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Автор: Bronner Yigal, McCrea Lawrence
Название: First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India
ISBN: 9780197583470
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10: 0197583474
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 20.08.2021
Серия: Aar religion in translation
Язык: English
Размер: 24.38 x 15.67 x 1.93 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: New theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century india
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Описание: First Words, Last Words charts an intense pamphlet war that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual innovation. This debate took
place within the traditional discourses of Vedic Hermeneutics, or Mīmāṃsā, and its increasingly influential sibling discipline of Vedānta, and its proponents among the leading intellectuals and public figures of the period.

Bronner and McCrea examine the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation and the role of sequence-what comes first and what follows later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage.
Vyāsatīrtha and his grand-pupil Vijayīndratīrtha, writers belonging to the camp of Dualist Vedānta, purported to uphold the radical view of their founding father, Madhva, who believed, against a long tradition of Mīmāṃsā interpreters, that the closing portion of a scriptural passage should govern
the interpretation of its opening. By contrast, the Nondualist Appayya Dīkṣita ostensibly defended his traditions preference for the opening. But, as this volume shows, the debaters gradually converged on a profoundly novel hermeneutic-cognitive theory in which sequence played little role, if any.

First Words, Last Words traces both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold
traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.

First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India, Bronner Yigal, McCrea Lawrence