Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!

Become a Readings Member. Sign in or sign up for free!

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre or sign out.

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom
Hardback

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom

$283.99
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to your wishlist.

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought, culminating in a look at how these traditions inform Indian philosophy and society in modern times. Offering translations from source texts and clear explanations of philosophical terms, this text provides a rigorous overview of Indian philosophical contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics. This is a must-read for anyone seeking a reliable and illuminating introduction to Indian philosophy.

Key Updates in the Second Edition

Reorganized into seven parts and fifteen chapters, making it easier for instructors to assign chapters for a semester-long course.

Continues to introduce systems historically, but focuses on new key questions and issues within each system.

Details new arguments, counter-arguments, objections, and their reformulations in the nine schools of Indian philosophy.

Offers expanded discussion of how various schools of Indian philosophy are engaged with each other.

Highlights key concepts and adds new grey boxes to explain selected key concepts.

Includes a new section that problematizes the Western notion of philosophy.

New Suggested Readings sections are placed at the end of each chapter, which include recommended translations, a bibliography of important works, and pertinent recent scholarship for each school.

Adds a new part (Part III) that explains the difficulties involved in translating from Sanskrit into English, discusses fundamental concepts and conceptual distinctions often used to present Indian philosophy to Western students, and reviews important features and maxims that most darsanas follow.

Provides new examples of applications to illustrate more obscure concepts and principles.

Read More
In Shop
Out of stock
Shipping & Delivery

$9.00 standard shipping within Australia
FREE standard shipping within Australia for orders over $100.00
Express & International shipping calculated at checkout

MORE INFO
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
26 April 2021
Pages
478
ISBN
9780367363086

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought, culminating in a look at how these traditions inform Indian philosophy and society in modern times. Offering translations from source texts and clear explanations of philosophical terms, this text provides a rigorous overview of Indian philosophical contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics. This is a must-read for anyone seeking a reliable and illuminating introduction to Indian philosophy.

Key Updates in the Second Edition

Reorganized into seven parts and fifteen chapters, making it easier for instructors to assign chapters for a semester-long course.

Continues to introduce systems historically, but focuses on new key questions and issues within each system.

Details new arguments, counter-arguments, objections, and their reformulations in the nine schools of Indian philosophy.

Offers expanded discussion of how various schools of Indian philosophy are engaged with each other.

Highlights key concepts and adds new grey boxes to explain selected key concepts.

Includes a new section that problematizes the Western notion of philosophy.

New Suggested Readings sections are placed at the end of each chapter, which include recommended translations, a bibliography of important works, and pertinent recent scholarship for each school.

Adds a new part (Part III) that explains the difficulties involved in translating from Sanskrit into English, discusses fundamental concepts and conceptual distinctions often used to present Indian philosophy to Western students, and reviews important features and maxims that most darsanas follow.

Provides new examples of applications to illustrate more obscure concepts and principles.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
26 April 2021
Pages
478
ISBN
9780367363086