[INDOLOGY] The so-called German Indology

[George Thompson]

Where would we be without German Indology?

George Thompson

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Gruenendahl, Reinhold <
gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

>  I hope this is not to suggest that the matter should be decided by
> acclamation. I merely asked Professor Hart to specify a point "that should
> be seriously considered by indologists". My interest does not go beyond
> that.
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> R.G.
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> *Von:* INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info]" im Auftrag von
> "Herman Tull [hermantull at gmail.com]
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 12. Juni 2015 16:59
> *An:* Indology
> *Betreff:* Re: [INDOLOGY] The so-called German Indology
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>    I am reading the Adluri/Bagchee book right now; though not without its
> problems, I have to agree with George Hart's assessment.
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>  But, I will also say, as a student of religion (my graduate department
> had the rather comprehensive and so, too, largely meaningless name,
> "Department of the History and Literature of Religions"), Americans have
> long struggled with the precise meaning of "wissenschaftlich."  The 19th
> century American world was a direct descendent of the German academy, but
> lacked its sophistication.  (Somewhere early in the JAOS I recall that the
> reason given for the turn to Oriental studies was to "keep up with the
> Joneses"--i.e., the Europeans; not much science there, I am afraid.)
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>  cheers,
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>  Herman Tull
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:27 AM, George Hart <glhart at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> If you search the book at Amazon, you can read significant parts of it
>> (“Look inside this book”). The authors are serious, well-read scholars and
>> have put a colossal amount of work into their effort. The book strikes me
>> as an important contribution whose ideas should be seriously considered by
>> indologists. George Hart
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>>   On Jun 12, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>    On 12 June 2015 at 14:15, Philipp Maas <philipp.a.maas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> In reading these lines, I get quite puzzled. Are historical-critical
>>> methods in general flawed, or only when practiced by Germans?
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>>  ​Only when practised by Germans, as any Italian would certainly answer
>> :-)
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>>  ​
>> (This refers to a running joke between some of us British, German and
>> Italian philologists here at the Vienna department.)
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>> I suppose the Adluri & Bagchee book deserves a more serious response, but
>> I'm not interested personally.  How did this get by the commissioning
>> editor at OUP NY?
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>>  Best,
>>  Dominik Wujastyk
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