The Indo-German identification
Subtitle: reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885
By: Robert Cowan.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781571134639
Subjects: National characteristics, German -- History -- 19th century; Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Ideals (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Public opinion -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Germany -- Civilization -- Indic influences; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; India -- Foreign public opinion, German; Germany -- Relations -- India; India -- Relations -- Germany
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. 2006--CUNY Graduate Center) under title The Indo-Germans : an Aryan romance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History is personal; title: Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765; title: pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s; title: As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of the arts and sciences; title: Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation; title: pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social   degeneration, 1790s-1808; title: Hindu predecessors of Christ : Novalis's Shakuntala; title: Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda; title: Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion; title: pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885; title: Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings"; title: Schopenhauer's justification for good; title: Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources; title: Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004; title: Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political.