
A Sabda Reader
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A Sabda Reader brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions-Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina-representing a number of schools of thought. It illuminates issues such as how Brahmanical thinkers understood the Veda and conceived of Sanskrit; how Buddhist thinkers came to assign importance to language's link to phenomenal reality; how Jains saw language as strictly material; the possibility of self-contradictory sentences; and how words affect thought. Throughout, the volume shows that linguistic presuppositions and implicit notions about language often play as significant a role as explicit ideas and formal theories. Including an introduction that places the texts and ideas in their historical and cultural context, A Sabda Reader sheds light on a crucial aspect of classical Indian thought and in so doing deepens our understanding of the philosophy of language.
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Johannes Bronkhorst (PhD, Sanskrit and Pali, University of Pune) is Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of a number of books, including Karma (Hawaii, 2011), Buddhist Teaching in India (Wisdom, 2009), Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics (Springer, 2013), Language and Reality (Brill, 2011), and How the Brahmins Won (Brill, 2016).Johannes Bronkhorst is professor emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of a number of books, including Buddhist Teaching in India (2009) and How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas (2016).
Content
Part I. Introduction
General Observations About Philosophy in India
1. The Brahmanical Background
2. Buddhist Thought: Source of Inspiration
3. The Grammarian Patanjali
4. The Special Place of Sanskrit and the Veda
5. Self-Contradictory Sentences
6. Do Words Affect Cognition?
7. Words and Sentences
8. Other Denotative Functions of the Word
Part II. Reader
1. The Brahmanical Background
2. Buddhist Thought: Source of Inspiration
3. The Grammarian Patanjali
4. The Special Place of Sanskrit and the Veda
5. Self-Contradictory Sentences
6. Do Words Affect Cognition?
7. Words and Sentences
8. Other Denotative Functions of the Word
Index of Translated Passages
The Texts and Their Dates
Chronological Table of Authors and Works
Editions Used
Technical Terms and Their Equivalents in English
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
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