Binding: Hardcover
Description: In A Time of Novelty Samuel Wright re - envisions the relationship between philosophy and history in premodern India. This relationship is studied through the tradition of Sanskrit logic between 1500 and 1700 CE - - the period in Indian history that witnessed the ascendency of the Mughal Empire. During this period Sanskrit logicians would refer to themselves and their arguments as 'new indicating that the concept of novelty was at the center of their philosophical project. By retaining space for emotion when studying intellectual thought this book recovers both what it means to think novelty and to feel novelty for these thinkers. Focusing on a number of little - known essays by early modern Sanskrit logicians Wright argues that the concept of novelty is used to forge a new philosophical community in this period where novelty is both an intellectual and affective category. This perspective allows the book to raise questions that have never been asked when studying Sanskrit logic - - questions concerning critical thought mood imagination and manuscript culture. Wright expands the ways in which we study philosophical thought by considering philosophy as deeply immersed in the felt experiences of one's life at the confluence of thinking and feeling.
Title: A Time Of Novelty Logic Emotion And Intellectual Life In Early Modern India 1500 - 1700 C. E
Author(s): Wright Samuel (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ahmedabad University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197568163
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Philosophy Of Mathematics