Dear colleagues,

I hope that this note finds you well, in good health and spirit.

My last book was published (on April 7^th) in the mist of the ongoing crisis, and more urgent imperatives prevented me from immediately presenting it to your kind attention. I now seize the opportunity to inform you about the new title in the Routledge series Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History:

“Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions.”

More information can be found on the publisher’s Website: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429275982

For your convenience, I am pasting the publisher’s blurb here:

This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It examines the function such dialectical texts were intended to serve in the intellectual and religious life of their public. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter- and intra-sectarian dialogues and as a religious phenomenon. It argues that doxographies represent dialectical exercises, indicative of a peculiar religious attitude to plurality, and locate these ‘exercises’ within a known form of ‘yoga’ dedicated to the cultivation of ‘knowledge’ or ‘gnosis’ (jñāna).

Concretely, the book presents a critical examination of three Sanskrit doxographies: the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā of the Buddhist Bhāviveka, the Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya of the Jain Haribhadra, and the Sarvasiddhāntasaṅgraha attributed to the Advaitin Śaṅkara, focusing on each of their respective presentation of the Mīmāṃsā view. 　

It is the first time that the genre of doxography is considered beyond its literary format to ponder its performative dimension, as a spiritual exercise. Theoretically broad, the book reaches out to academics in religious studies, Indian philosophy, Indology, and classical studies.

With this brief note, I wish you all the best.