Reception of the Gita

[Peter Wyzlic]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:22:25 +0200
  Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at CHELLO.NO> wrote:
> 
> I am looking for material on the reception of the 
>Bhagavadgita in the West.
> Do any of you have any reading suggestions or 
>references?

Besides the already mentioned works, there are two recent 
publications:

Robinson, Catherine A.:
Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and images of the 
Hindu tradition : the song of the Lord / by Catherine A. 
Robinson. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2005. - 256 S.
ISBN 0-415-34671-1
[Disclaimer: I haven't seen it, maybe the work deals more 
with modern Hindu interpretations]

Herling, Bradley L.:
The German Gita : hermeneutics and discipline in the 
German reception of Indian thought, 1778 - 1831 / Bradley 
L. Herling. - New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2006. - XI, 358 
S. - (Studies in philosophy)
ISBN 0-415-97616-2

In her thesis, Angelika Malinar deals also at length with 
the different Western interpretations:
Angelika Malinar: Rajavidya : das königliche Wissen um 
Herrschaft und Verzicht ; Studien zur Bhagavadgita / 
Angelika Malinar. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1996. - XII, 
505 S. - (Purana research publications, Tübingen ; 5)
ISBN 3-447-03850-0
Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1991

By the way, the a fac-simile of Humboldt's classical 
monograph from 1828 has been put online by the Academy of 
Sciences in Berlin, compare the links at 
http://www.furl.net/item.jsp?id=7087591

Hope it helps
Peter Wyzlic

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