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A time of novelty : logic, emotion, and intellectual life in early modern India, 1500-1700 C.E. /

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This book argues that a philosophical community emerges in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India that crafts an intellectual life on the basis of intellectual and emotional responses to novelty in Sanskrit logic (nyāya-śāstra). As the book demonstrates, novelty was a primary concept used by Sansk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Samuel (historian of South Asia) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Navya-Nyāya > Early works to 1800.
India > Intellectual life > 16th century.
India > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Fallacies (Logic) > Early works to 1800.
Hindu logic.
Emotional intelligence.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Newness and Emotion: 1. Doubt
  • 2. Objectivity
  • Part II. Feeling and Reasoning: 3. Happiness
  • 4. Dying
  • Part III. Space and Time: 5. Space
  • 6. Time
  • Conclusion: A Time of Novelty
  • Appendix
  • Table 2. Data for Map 2. Manuscript Economy: northern view
  • Table 3. Data for Map 3. Manuscript Economy: southern view
  • Bibliography
  • Index.