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  title info:
    title: German nationalism and Indian political thought
    sub title: the influence of ancient Indian philosophy on the German Romantics
  name:
    name part: Pimenov, Alexei
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 238 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West. The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted in the adoption of Indian models of identity and otherness and ultimately shaped German Romantic nationalism. The author illustrates how Indian influence renovated the scholarly design of German nationalism and, at the same time, became central to pre-modern and pre-nationalist models of identity, which later shaped the Aryan myth. Focusing on the scholarship of Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer, the book shows how, in explaining the fact of the diversity of languages, peoples, and cultures, the German Romantics reproduced the Indian narrative of the degradation of some Indo-Aryan clans, which led to their separation from the Aryan civilization. An important resource for the nexus between Indology and Orientalism, German Indian studies and studies of nationalism, this book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of history, European and south Asian area studies, philosophy, political science and international relations theory.
  table of contents: The Romantic Germanization (Verdeutschung) of the Indian Heritage -- Britain's Discovery of India: The Colonial Rulers and Their Fact Finding Team -- The German Indian Renaissance and its Historical Roots -- Friedrich Schlegel: Indology as the Key to the National and Religious History of the World -- Otmar Frank: A Breakthrough to the Alleged Iranian Indian Roots of the Germans -- Joseph Goerres: The Orient as the Source of the Urreligion and of the Staende-based German Weltstaat -- Schopenhauer: The India Rooted "Wisdom of All Ages" vs. the Bible Based Monotheism -- Epilogue.
  note: Alexei Pimenov.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-234) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Indic influences
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Indic
  subject:
    topic: Romanticism
    geographic: Germany
  classification: DD61.8 .P56 2020
  classification: 320.540943
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Intersections (London, England)
  identifier: 9780367406196
  identifier: 0367406195
  identifier: 9780367800048
  identifier: 9781000767988
  identifier: 9781000767605
  identifier: 9781000767797
  identifier: 2019044057
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191015
    record change date: 20200729073329.0
    record identifier: in00004166156