[INDOLOGY] Publication Announcement

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hearty Congratulations. Thanks for sharing.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 9:21 AM Williams, Michael via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear List Members,
>
> I am delighted to announce the publication of my monograph “Existence and
> Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha’s Defence of Realism in the
> *Nyāyāmṛta*”. The volume has been published by De Gruyter. It is
> available open access and can be downloaded from the publisher’s website:
>
> https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110728521/html
>
> It should now also be possible to order hard copies from De Gruyter.
>
> The monograph is based on my original translations of Sanskrit texts,
> particularly the *Nyāyāmṛta* of the Mādhva philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The
> text is widely considered a masterpiece of Vedānta philosophy and proved to
> be one of the most influential works in Vedānta from the sixteenth century
> onward. The volume also includes translations from the works of Jayatīrtha,
> Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya, Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, and others.
>
> A central focus of the book is the Mādhva critique of the doctrine of
> “indeterminacy” (*anirvacanīyatā*) and related issues about
> existence/nonexistence and the epistemology of perception. A central theme
> is Vyāsatīrtha’s use of the work of the Navya-Nyāya philosopher Gaṅgeśa
> Upādhyāya to critique Advaita philosophy.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Dr. Michael Williams
>
> Research Associate
> Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
> Austrian Academy of Sciences
> Vienna
>
>
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