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The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo

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Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion

The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo

DOI link for The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo

The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo book

Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
ByBrainerd Prince
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 20 January 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559216
Pages 262 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315559216
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities
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Prince, B. (2017). The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559216

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.

This book will be of interest to academics studying Religious Studies, Philosophy of Religion, Continental Hermeneutics, Modern India, Modern Hinduism as well as South Asian Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

Mapping the journey

chapter 2|23 pages

Conceptual groundwork

Aurobindo, hermeneutics and religion

chapter 3|44 pages

The Life Divine – I

Whose tradition? Which rationality?

chapter 4|47 pages

The Life Divine – II

Transcendence and the sevenfold being

chapter 5|34 pages

The Human Cycle

Articulation as narrative

chapter 6|50 pages

The Synthesis of Yoga

Action, yoga, and tradition

chapter 7|21 pages

Conclusion

The journey and beyond
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