num_pages: 144
description: This study in cross-cultural hermeneutics examines the role that modern, Western philosophy has played in the interpretation of Nagarjuna's Madhyamikakarika, a second-century Indian-Buddhist text. Tuck locates a structure of distinct phases or "styles" in modern, philosophical history. These phases, Tuck shows, exhibit discontinuous interpretive biases, as well as continuity of hermeneutic intention. Discovering in each philosophical era a chaacteristic attitude towards the textwhether privilege, objectivity, or neutralityTuck argues that the continual reinterpretation of earlier scholarly readings is in fact at the core of fruitful hermeneutic pursuit.
language: English
title: Comparative Philosophy and the Philosophy of Scholarship: On the Western Interpretation of Nagarjuna
titlecomplete: Comparative Philosophy and the Philosophy of Scholarship: On the Western Interpretation of Nagarjuna
genres: Buddhism, Philosophy
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Oxford University Press