Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahabharata
Published on 2. June 2016
Book
Hardback
494 pages
978-90-04-31139-8 (ISBN)
Description
Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a, discussing the Mahabharata's upakhyanas, subtales that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it.
Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee, Greg Bailey, Adam Bowles, Simon Brodbeck, Nicolas Dejenne, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, Robert P. Goldman, Alf Hiltebeitel, Thennilapuram Mahadevan, Adheesh Sathaye, Bruce M. Sullivan, and Fernando Wulff Alonso.
Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee, Greg Bailey, Adam Bowles, Simon Brodbeck, Nicolas Dejenne, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, Robert P. Goldman, Alf Hiltebeitel, Thennilapuram Mahadevan, Adheesh Sathaye, Bruce M. Sullivan, and Fernando Wulff Alonso.
Reviews / Votes
'This is not just one among numerous books written on the Mahabharata, but a fresh scholarly look at some controversies about the epic, leading to some definite conclusions.(...) This volume could be seen as the beginning of approaching the Mahabharata from the perspective of the upakhyana and "a new way of navigating the epic, using not the so-called heroic epic as our guide but the epic's own musings about itself and its characters, provided self-reflexively via its narration of its upakhyanas". (...) With fourteen chapters on a wide range of topics-from the connection of Ramaya?a's Uttaraka?da to the Mahabharata to the depictions of some Mahabharata's characters-Argument and Design is a welcome relief from the existing predictable literature on the Mahabharata, and could be a good starting point for anyone who wants to critically study the epic "as a whole." 'Swami Narasimhananda, Reading Religion (http://readingreligion.org/books/argument-and-design)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
847 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-31139-8 (9789004311398)
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Vishwa P. Adluri is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion at Hunter College, New York and the author of numerous articles and essays on the Mahabharata. His work mainly focuses on the reception of ancient thought-both Greek and Indian-in modernity. Vishwa has a PhD in Philosophy from the New School, New York and a PhD in Indology from Philipps-Universitaet Marburg.
Joydeep Bagchee is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. His current research focuses on the intersection of the textual sciences, philology, textual criticism, and the history of science. Joydeep is co-author, with Vishwa Adluri, of The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press, 2015).
Joydeep Bagchee is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. His current research focuses on the intersection of the textual sciences, philology, textual criticism, and the history of science. Joydeep is co-author, with Vishwa Adluri, of The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press, 2015).