This handbook brings together a distinguished team of scholars from philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy.
Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as well as the modern Vedantic views of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and Romain Rolland. The volume offers careful hermeneutic analyses of how Vedantic texts have been interpreted, and it addresses key issues and debates in Vedanta, including religious diversity, the nature of God, and the possibility of embodied liberation. Venturing into cross-philosophical and cross-cultural territory, it also brings Vedanta into dialogue with Saiva Nondualism as well as contemporary Western analytic philosophy.
Highlighting current scholarly controversies and charting new paths of inquiry, this is an indispensable research guide for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Vedanta and Indian philosophy.
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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter Summaries
Introduction: The Past, Present, and Future of Scholarship on Vedanta, Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)
Part 1: Classical Vedanta
1. Contemplating Nonduality: The Method of Nididhyasana in Sankara's Advaita Vedanta, Neil Dalal (University of Alberta, Canada)
2. Soul and Knowledge in Visistadvaita Vedanta of Venkatanatha, Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
3. Vyasatirtha's Nyayamrta: An Analytic Defense of Realism in Madhva Vedanta, Michael Williams (University of Vienna, Austria)
4. Accomplishing the Impossible: Jiva Gosvami and the Concept of Acintya in Caitanya Vaisnava Vedanta, Ravi M. Gupta
Part 2: Modern Vedanta
5. Sri Ramakrishna's Philosophy of Anekanta Vedanta, Jeffery D. Long (Elizabethtown College, USA)
6. Sri Aurobindo's Psychology of a "Psychic Being" in Support of a Metaphysical Argument for Reincarnation, Stephen Phillips (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
7. Debating Freud on the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland's Vedantic Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a "New Science of the Mind," Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)
Part 3: Key Themes, Concepts, and Debates in Vedanta
8. Making Space for God: Karma, Freedom, and Devotion in the Brahmasutra Commentaries of Sankara, Ramanuja, and Baladeva, Andrew Nicholson (SUNY Stonybrook, USA)
9. Vedantic Approaches to Religious Diversity: Grounding the Many Divinities in the Unity of Brahman, Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge, UK)
10. Nondual Philosophies in Dialogue: The World and Embodied Liberation in Advaita Vedanta and Pratyabhijña, Klara Hedling (University of Oxford, UK)
Part 4: Hermeneutic Investigations
11. Seeing Oneness Everywhere: Sri Aurobindo's Mystico-Immanent Interpretation of the Isa Upanisad, Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)
12. On the Style of Vedanta: Reading Bharatitirtha's Vaiyasikanyayamala in Light of Madhava's Jaiminiyanyayamala, Francis X. Clooney (Harvard University, USA)
13. Sankaradigvijaya: A Narrative Interpretation of Sankara's Advaita Vedanta, Daniel Raveh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Part 5: Cross-Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Interventions
14. A New Debate on Consciousness: Bringing Classical and Modern Vedanta into Dialogue with Contemporary Analytic Panpsychism, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
15. Mystical Experience as a Skeptical Scenario: Sri Harsa's Skeptical Advaita in the Khandanakhandakhadya, Ethan Mills
16. Dream and Love at the Edge of Wisdom: A Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remapping of Vedanta, Arindam Chakrabarti
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