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020			_a9781138347540 (pbk)
082			_a181.4 _bPRI
100			_aPrince, Brainerd _98479
245			_aThe integral philosophy of aurobindo : _bhermeneutics and the study of religion
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2017
300			_aix, 251p.
440			_aRoutledge Hindu Studies Series _98494
500			_ahttps://www.routledge.com/The-Integral-Philosophy-of-Aurobindo-Hermeneutics-and-the-Study-of-Religion/Prince/p/book/9781138347540
520			_a"Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical traditions. The central argument is that Aurobindo’s integral philosophy is best understood as a hermeneutical philosophy of religion. Such an understanding of Aurobindo’s philosophy, offering both substantive and methodological insights for the academic study of religion, subdivides into three interrelated aims. The first is to demonstrate that the power of the Aurobindonian vision lies in its self-conception as a traditionary-hermeneutical enquiry into religion; the second, to draw substantive insights from Aurobindo’s enquiry to envision a way beyond the impasse within the current religious-secular debate in the academic study of religion. Working out of the condition of secularism, the dominant secularists demand the abandonment of the category ‘religion’ and the dismantling of the academic discipline of religious studies. Aurobindo’s integral work on ‘religion’, arising out of the Vedānta tradition, critiques the condition of secularity that undergirds the religious-secular debate. Finally, informed by the hermeneutical tradition and building on the methodological insights from Aurobindo's integral method, the book explores a hermeneutical approach for the study of religion which is dialogical in nature."
650			_aReligion--Philosophy _98480
650			_aGhose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950 _98481
650			_aHermeneutics _91553
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