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On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017
By Peter Sloterdijk (Text by), Joachim Bautze (Text by), Elio Schenini (Editor), Elio Schenini (Text by), Peter Van De Veer (Text by), Douglas T. McGetchin (Text by), Pradeep Chakkarath (Text by), Romita Ray (Text by), Marie-Cécile Forest (Text by), Aude De Tocqueville (Text by), Diana Brenscheidt (Text by), Johannes Beltz (Text by), Andrea Kuratli (Text by)
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By Peter Sloterdijk (Text by), Joachim Bautze (Text by), Elio Schenini (Editor), Elio Schenini (Text by), Peter Van De Veer (Text by), Douglas T. McGetchin (Text by), Pradeep Chakkarath (Text by), Romita Ray (Text by), Marie-Cécile Forest (Text by), Aude De Tocqueville (Text by), Diana Brenscheidt (Text by), Johannes Beltz (Text by), Andrea Kuratli (Text by)
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From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined India
In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, inaugurating the West’s fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization. Beginning with Schlegel and the later reflections of Schopenhauer on Hinduism and Buddhism, followed by the novels of Hermann Hesse and the anthropological–psychological analyses of Carl Gustav Jung in the early 20th cent...