The Bloomsbury research handbook of emotions in classical Indian philosophy / edited by Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar.

Other author Heim, Maria, 1969-
Other author Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi.
Other author Tzohar, Roy, 1973-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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SeriesBloomsbury research handbooks in Asian philosophy
Contents Introduction / Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar -- 1. Grief, Tranquillity, and Śānta Rasa in Raviṣeṇa's Padmapurāṇa / Gregory Clines -- 2. Emotions in Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta / Elisa Freschi -- 3. Joy as Medicine? Yogavāsiṣṭha and Descartes on the Affective Sources of Disease / Ana Laura Funes Maderay -- 4. Some Analyses of Feeling / Maria Heim -- 5. Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, Sītā, and Yaśodharā / Steven P. Hopkins -- 6. The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and Narrative Thought / Sonam Kachru -- 7. Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness: Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka / James Madaio -- 8. Gesture and Emotion in Tamil Śaiva Devotional Poetry / Anne Monius -- 9. The Emotion that is Correlated with the Comic: Notes on Human Nature through Rasa Theory / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -- 10. Is there a Caṅkam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice, and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry / Martha Selby -- 11. Wretched and Blessed: Emotional Praise in a Sanskrit Hymn from Kashmir / Hamsa Stainton -- 12. Savouring Rasa: Emotion, Judgement, and Phenomenal Content / Sthaneshwar Timalsina -- 13. How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude (viveka) in Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda / Roy Tzohar -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract "Drawing on a rich variety of Indian texts across multiple traditions, including Vedanta, Buddhist, Yoga and Jain, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading Indian philosophers showcase the unique literary texture, philosophical reflections and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. From solitude in the Saundarananda and psychosomatic theories of disease in the Yogavasistha to female lament in Greek, Sinhala Buddhist and Sanskrit epic tales, their chapters reveal the range and diversity of the phenomena encompassing the English term 'emotion'. In doing so, they contribute towards a more cosmopolitan, comparative and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the field beyond the Western tradition"-- Provided by publisher.
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