Transnational Intersections of Germany and India

Perry W. Myers is Professor of German Studies at Albion College, USA.

• Ch 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Philosophy, Religion, and Intellectual History.- Ch 2: India as Jewish Third Space. German-Jewish Thought, Rabindranath Tagore, and the  Transnationality of Intellectual History.- Ch 3: The New Orientalist Advaita Vedanta. Max Müller’s and Paul Deussen’s Joint Revision of Religion and Christianity.- Ch 4: A Philosophical Critique of Manu’s Code: Confronting Hegel and Nietzsche on Indian Thought.- Ch 5: Searching for Renewal of Christian Faith in India: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Fascination with Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha.- Part 2: Art and Literature.- Ch 6: Enacting Aurangzeb’s Darbar in Saxony in 1700 CE.- Ch 7: The Transnational Turn(ing) of Transposed Heads: Hayavadana in Weimar.- Part 3: Connective Journeys.- Ch 8: Journeys East and West: Travelers between German-Speaking Central Europe and India, 1919-1939.- Ch 9: Herbert Fischer–a Life Story of Indo-German Entanglement.- Ch 10: Epilogue.