TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,Robert
TI  - The Indo-German identification: reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885
SN  - 9781571134639 (alk. paper)
U1  - 305.831009034  
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Rochester, N.Y.
PB  - Camden House
KW  - National characteristics, German
KW  - History
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Germany
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Indic influences
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - India
KW  - Foreign public opinion, German
KW  - Relations
N1  - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. 2006--CUNY Graduate Center) under title The Indo-Germans : an Aryan romance; Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-218) and index; Introduction: History is personal -- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765 -- pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s -- As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art -- Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation -- pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social   degeneration, 1790s-1808 -- Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala -- Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda -- Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion -- pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885 -- Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings" -- Schopenhauer's justification for good -- Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources -- Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004 -- Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political
ER  -