Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy
2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity
3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India?
4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance
5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj
6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity
7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism
8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy
9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas
10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein
11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy
12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics
13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance

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About the Author

Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University

Reviews

"Bhushan and Garfield's book is an extremely valuable record of a community of philosophers that has fallen sadly into obscurity, and of the philosophical contributions of figures that are more often discussed in non-philosophical contexts--figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, and Vivekenanda." -- Evan Clarke, Philosophy in Review
"This remarkable volume should put to rest, once and for all, the false but still prevalent notion that colonial and post-colonial India witnessed a stark decline in original philosophical thought. The authors reveal a scintillating world of sophisticated philosophical works produced over the last two centuries or more-- works that embody, on the one hand, strong continuities with the classical and medieval past and with the great Sanskrit traditions,
particularly in aesthetics and epistemology, and, on the other hand, a creative engagement with philosophical currents rooted in modern Western thought. Far from washing away the residues of a moribund Indian
metaphysics, nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy is shown to have generated highly original rethinking of classical themes and notions. This book is a joy to read." DLDavid Shulman, Hebrew University