Around Abhinavagupta : Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir from the Ninth to the Eleventh Century

ISBN-13: 9783643906977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 684 str.

Eli Franco; Isabelle Ratie

Opis

Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Saiva theology, and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijna system, are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific historical, social, artistic, religious, and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is no less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself. (Series: Leipzig Studies on the Culture and History of South and Central Asia / Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens, Vol. 6) Subject: History, Abhinavagupta, India Studies, Religious Studies]

O autorze

Eli Franco is Professor of Indology at Leipzig University and an Ordinary Fellow of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
Isabelle Ratié is Professor of Sanskrit at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris.