Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta (United States)

Foreword by Lambert SchmithausenIntroduction by William Halbfass An Uncommon Orientalist: Paul Hacker's Passage to India I. Sankara and the Traditions of Advaita Vedanta: Philological Explorations 1. On Sankara and Advaitism 2. Relations of Early Advaitins of Vaisnavism 3. Sankaracarya and Sankarabhagavatpada: Preliminary Remarks Concerning the Authorship Problem 4. Distinctive Features of the Doctrine and Terminology of Sankara: Avidya, Namarupa, Maya, Isvara 5. Sankara the Yogin and Sankara the Advaitin: Some Observations II. Nondualism and Its Implications: Understanding and Confrontation 6. The Theory of Degrees of Reality in Advaita Vedanta 7. The Idea of the Person in the Thinking of Vedanta Philosophers 8. Sankara's Conception of Man 9. Being and Spirit in Vedanta 10. Cit and Nous, or the Concept of Spirit in Vedantism and in Neoplatonism III. Neo-Hinduism and Modern Vedanta: Studies in Reinterpretation 11. Aspects of Neo-Hinduism as Contrasted with Surviving Traditional Hinduism 12. The Concept of Dharma in Neo-Hinduism 13. Schopenhauer and Hindu Ethics 14. Vivekanada's Religious Nationalism 15. A Prasthanatraya Commentary of Neo-Hinduism: Remarks on the Work of Radhakrishnan Bibliographical Notes on the Texts and Translations Abbreviations Index