The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

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SUNY Press, 15 thg 9, 1994 - 300 trang
Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic cliches elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in the West, focusing on 19th-century German, French, and English scholarship and also touching on 20th-century associations between Indo-Germanism and National Socialism. She discusses the politics of language and exoticism, the German quest for nirvana, and the relationship between Indian thought and Aryan ideology. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

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Introduction
1
EXOTICISM MODEL FOR INSPIRATION OR ALIBI FOR DESPAIR?
19
The Dynamics of Exoticism Herders Epigram and Gunderrodes Epitaph
21
Rationalist Heroes and Irrational Victims Satïs Bayaderas and Pariahs
29
THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE AND THE POLITICS OF EXOTICISM
47
The Politics of Exoticism Friedrich Schlegels Metaphorical Pilgrimage to India
55
Scholarly Collusion and the Ethos of Despair The Initial Reception of the Bhagavad Gïtä
63
THE POETICS OF DESPAIR IRRATIONAL RESPONSES TO EXOTICISM
91
The German Quest for Nirvana
95
Néantisme
123
Indian Thought and the Formation of Aryan Ideology Aryans Tschandalen and the Lunatic Fringe
137
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Dorothy M. Figueira is Assistant Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is the author of Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe, also published by SUNY Press.

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