Just in time for your (or more likely your university librarian’s) holiday wish lists, two major edited volumes on Indian philosophy have been published. The first, which appeared in November, is Jonardon Ganeri’s The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy. The second, published in December, is Purushottama Bilimoria’s History of Indian Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies). I, and several other contributors to the Indian Philosophy Blog, have written articles in these volumes. Below are the tables of contents for each.
Purushottama Bilimoria (ed.), History of Indian Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies). London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. Pp. 612 ($220.00).
I. Knowledge, context, concepts
1 Interpretations and interventions: Indian philosophy and the cosmopolitan approach, Christian Coseru
2 Methodology in Indian philosophy, Nirmalya N. Chakraborty, with Prabal Kumar Sen
3 Pramāna epistemology: origins and developments, Purushottama Bilimoria
4 Buddhist hermeneutics, John Powers
5 Process philosophy and phenomenology of time in Buddhism, Hari Shankar Prasad
6 Philosophy and religion in India, Jessica Frazier
7 Indian skepticism, Raghunath Ghosh
8 Self in Indian philosophy: questions, answers, issues, Michael P. Levine
9 Contents of consciousness: perception, Monima Chadha
10 Indian materialism, Raghunath Ghosh
IIa. Philosophical traditions
11 Philosophy of the Brāmanas, Herman Tull
12 Upanisads, Brian Black
13 Sāmkhya, Mikel Burley
14 The diverse traditions of Sāmkhya, Knut A. Jacobsen
15 Mīmāmsā, Elisa Freschi
16 The categories in Vaisesika: known and named, ShashiPrabha Kumar
17 Nyāya, Stephen Phillips
18 The Nyāya on inference and fallacies, J. L. Shaw
19 Embodied connectionism: Nyāya philosophy of mind, Douglas L. Berger
20 A phenomenological reading of the Nyāya critique of the no- self view: Udayana and the phenomenal separateness of self, Chakravarthi RamPrasad
21 Udayana’s theory of extrinsic validity in his theistic monograph, Taisei Shida
22 Early Vedānta, Andrew J. Nicholson
23 Advaita Vedānta of Śankara, Thomas A. Forsthoefel
24 Avidyā: the hard problem in Advaita Vedānta, Stephen Kaplan
25 Visistādvaita Vedānta, Christopher Bartley
26 An overview of classical Yoga philosophy as a philosophy of embodied self- awareness, Ana Laura Funes Maderey
27 A reassessment of classical Yoga philosophy, Ian Whicher
IIb. Philosophical traditions
28 Indian Yogācāra Buddhism: a historical perspective, William S. Waldron
29 Early Mahāyāna, Peter Gilks
30 Abhidharma, Joseph Walser
31 Nāgārjuna, Jay L. Garfield
32 Nāgārjuna’s early Madhyamaka: “deconstruction” and moderation, Douglas L. Berger
33 A spectrum of metaphysical positions concerning the existence or non-existence of a self: Nyāya, Śaiva Siddhānta, Mīmāmsā, Jainism and Buddhism, Alex Watson
34 Svātantrika Madhyamaka metaphysics: Bhāvaviveka’s conception of reality, Sonam Thakchoe
35 The two truths in Madhyamaka: Jñānagarbha, Sonam Thakchoe
36 Vajrayāna Buddhism, Joseph Loizzo, edited by Amy Rayner
IIc. Philosophical traditions
37 Hermeneutics: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina, Arthur Dudney
38 Basic Jaina epistemology, Jayandra Soni
39 Anekāntavāda, Nayavāda, and Syādvāda: the history and significance of the Jaina doctrines of relativity, Jeffery D. Long
40 Jaina ethics and moral philosophy, Christopher Key Chapple
41 Tantra and Kashmiri Śaivism, David Peter Lawrence
42 Looking beyond the Darsanas: Tantric knowledge systems and Indian philosophy, Jason Schwartz
43 The epistemology of classical Hindu law, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
44 Abhinavagupta, Loriliai Biernacki
45 Cognition and language: Buddhist criticism of Bhartrhari’s thesis, Toshiya Unebe
46 Alamkārkasāstra as a philosophical discipline, David Mellins
47 Indian philosophy of music, William J. Jackson
III. Engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern
48 Islamic modernism in India, Muhammad Kamal
49 Gur-Sikh dharam, Balbinder Singh Bhogal
50 Buddhist ethics, Damien Keown
51 Process Buddhism: ethics and social engagement, Peter Paul Kakol, edited by Amy Rayner
52 Indian and European philosophy, Thomas B. Ellis
53 Modern philosophy in India, A. Raghuramaraju
54 Gandhi’s truth: debating Bilgrami, Bindu Puri
55 Understanding Indian philosophical traditions, Anna-Pya Sjödin
56 G. R. Malkani, Sharad Deshpande
57 Postmodern approaches, Carl Olson
58 Philosophy in an age of postcolonialism, Joseph Prabhu
Index
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Those look like great books, but geez, what is with the prices? Do they come packaged with a pound of cocaine?
LOL 😆
The Oxford volume’s articles are are all already online (accessible if you have an affiliation with a wealthy university’s library): http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199314621
I hope Taylor & Francis has some kind of similar arrangement for the Routledge volume. These articles deserve a wide audience, and nowadays students seem to prefer reading on a tablet or smartphone. If you need an article and ask the author s/he may be willing to send you a copy for free.
Ooh, you’re right! I may be helping with tech for my day job, but at least it’s at a wealthy university. 🙂
Note from Jonardon Ganeri: “Just to let people know that OUP is offering a 30% discount using the code AAFLYG6. The hardback is still expensive, but hopefully a paperback will follow before too long. (PS This code also applies to all my other OUP books as well).”
Another note from Jonardon, with great news for readers in India:
“Readers based in South Asia can now get a paperback South Asian edition of the Handbook of Indian Philosophy for $23 (Rs. 1475) at flipkart or amazon.in”