The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men : Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Premodern India

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction. I. The Sanskrit cosmopolis: 1. The language of the Gods enters the world. 2. Literature and the cosmopolitan language of literature. 3. The world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style. 4. Sanskrit culture as courtly practice. 5. The map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature. 6. Political formations and cultural ethos. 7. A European countercosmopolis. II. The Vernacular millennium: 8. Beginnings, textualization, superposition. 9. Creating a regional world: the case of Kannada. 10. Vernacular poetries and polities in Southern Asia. 11. Europe vernacularized. 12. Comparative and connective vernacularization. III. Theory and practice of culture and power: 13. Actually existing theory and its discontents. 14. Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity. Epilogue: from cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular. Appendixes. Publication history. Bibliography. Index. "In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle for poetry and polity by tracing the two great moments of this transformation. He asks whether the very different histories of these two moments challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.". Artikel-Nr. 74816

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