The concept of “Indian philosophy” as a product of intercultural dialogue (Wilhelm Halbfass’s India and Europe re visited)

• Authors: Serebriany Sergei
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a sequel to another paper of the same author: “Some Marginal Notes on [W. Halbfass’s] India and Europe” (in: E. Franco, K. Preisendanz (eds.), Beyond Orientalism. The Work of Wilhelm Halbfass and its Impact on Indian and Cross‑Cultural Studies, Amsterdam–Atlanta 1997). In the present paper the concept of “Indian philosophy” is discussed – with references to the analysis of the concept in the book India and Europe by W. Halbfass. The central idea of the paper is this: “Indian philosophy” is not a kind of primordial entity it is often said to be, but rather a contingent concept which gradually evolved in the 19th and 20th century in the process of intercultural interaction between Indian (South Asian) and European (Western) intellectual traditions.

Keywords

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philosophy; Western; non‑Western; Indian; Chinese; Russian; transfer; intercultural dialogue

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 40
• Pages: 227-252

Contributors

author

Serebriany Sergei

• Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.15