Transcultural encounters between Germany and India : kindred spirits in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas T. McGetchin.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Routledge, 2014.
Description
xvi, 238 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas T. McGetchin
    • Fostering aesthetic tolerance through literary translation : Georg Forster's Sakuntala Madhuvanti Karyekar
    • India and Hegel's "scientific" method in the phenomenology of spirit / Nicholas Germana
    • Claims and disclaimers : Schopenhauer and the cross-cultural comparative enterprise / Sai Bhatawadekar
    • Rudolf Steiner and the theosophy of greed / Jared Poley
    • The redemption of the scientist : Richard Garbe as a chronicler of India / Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri
    • German travelers to India at the fin-de-siècle and their ambivalent views of the Raj / Perry Myers
    • Germans in India between Kaiserreich and the end of World War II / Joachim Osterheld
    • Cross-cultural transfer and Indophilia in Count Hermann Keyserling / Joanne Miyang Cho
    • Asian anti-imperialism and leftist antagonism in Weimar Germany / Douglas T. McGetchin
    • Indian political activities in Germany, 1914-1945 / Benjamin Zachariah
    • The orientalist roots of National Socialism? : Nazism, occultism, and South Asian spirituality, 1919-1945 / Eric Kurlander
    • The melancholy of the thinking racist : India and the ambiguities of race in the work of Hans F.K. Günther / Lucia Staiano-Daniels
    • West Germany's India policy 1949 to 1972 / Amit Das Gupta
    • East meets East : Fritz Bennewitz's theatrical journeys from the GDR to India / Joerg Esleben
    • The passion of Paul Hacker : Indology, orientalism, and evangelism / Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. Adluri.
    ISBN
    • 9780415844697 (hardback)
    • 041584469X (hardback)
    LCCN
    2013023755
    OCLC
    852218759
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