Aryans, Jews, Brahmins Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity

Name: Aryans, Jews, Brahmins Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity
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ISBN: 9780791455326

ISBN-10: 0791455327

ISBN-13: 9780791455326

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dorothy M. Figueira

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 9/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 217
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Shared Myths


The Aryan Canon


Methodology and Plan



The Authority of an Absent Text



The Enlightenment and Orientalist Discourse on the Aryan


The Enlightenment Background


Voltaire and the Search for Authority


Locus of Poetic Inspiration or Site of Cultural Decay?


Conclusion



The Romantic Aryans


Romantic Myth Theory


Friedrich Schlegel and the Foundations of Romantic Linguistics


Romantic Mythographers and the Upnekhata


Romantic Indology: The Case of Max Muller


Conclusion



Nietzsche's Aryan Ubermensch


Introduction


Reading Nietzsche Reading India


Manu as a "Semitized" Aryan Sourcebook


The Aryan as Ubermensch


Christianity, an Anti-Aryan Outcaste Religion


The Jew and the Aryan


Conclusion



Loose Can[n]ons


Racial Theory: An Overview


Gobineau and the Aryan Aristocrat


Houston Stewart Chamberlain: Aryan Publicist


Alfred Rosenberg and the Nordic Aryan


Conclusion



Who Speaks for the Subaltern?



Rammohan Roy


Reading Reform


The Complexity of the Colonial Subject


Scriptural Authority and the Hermeneutics of Sati


Misreading Monotheism: Idolatry and Brahmin Perfidy


Rammohan Roy's Syncretism and Its Challenge to Postcolonial Theory



Text-based Identity: Dayanand Saraswati's Reconstruction of the Aryan Self


Introduction


Dayanand's Canon and Hermeneutical Strategies for Reading the Aryan World


Aryan Masculinity and the Teleology of Decay


Conclusion



Aryan Identity and National Self-Esteem


Introduction


Justice Ranade and Lokamanya Tilak


Swami Vivekananda


Conclusion



The Anti-Myth


Introduction


The Aryan and Its Other


Mahatma Phule


Dr. Ambedkar


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index