Orientophilia: Indic Philosophy in Post-Romantic Thought
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This network was funded from June 2013 - June 2015
In contemporary Europe, we think of Asia as a place that was consistently represented as inferior during the colonial era, but this paradigm has obscured other potential relationships between the continents. The contention of our network was that Indian thought had been a consistent source of inspiration (sometimes explicitly, often unacknowledged) in the work of post-Enlightenment French and German philosophers and theologians. By locating Indic philosophical schools in European intellectual history, we aimed to trace a global genealogy of ideas with implications for European nationalism, French structuralism, and comparative studies of religion and the mind.
Contact: Sondra Hausner
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Past Events
Thinking About Religion in France around 1900 (February 2014)
A Study Day organised by The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in conjunction with Orientophilia, a TORCH network of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford University
Schweitzer: France, Germany and the World, Ruth Harris (Oxford)
Why was Mauss interested in Spinoza? Reflections on the notion of totality, Nick Allen (Oxford)
Gaston Richard and the status of religion in sociology, Bill Pickering (Oxford)
Was Durkheim a mystic of the Third Republic? Sondra Hausner (Oxford)
Orientophilia Seminar (May 2014)
Kant and the Gita: Josiah Royce and the entangled reception of German Idealism and Indic Philology in the Golden Age of American Philosophy, Dr Mishka Sinha (Berlin)
