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This book argues that a philosophical community emerged in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India that crafted an intellectual life on the basis of intellectual and emotional responses to novelty in Sanskrit logic (nyāya-śāstra). As the book demonstrates, novelty was a primary concept used by Sanskrit logicians during this period to mark the boundaries of a philosophical community in both intellectual and emotional terms. This concept was expressed in their texts through the use of terms such as “old” and “new” when discussing certain philosophical opinions, signaling that periodization was a major component of their philosophy. By retaining space for emotion when studying intellectual thought, this book recovers not only what it means to “think” novelty but also what it means to “feel” novelty. Studying little-known essays by Sanskrit logicians in early modernity, the book explores the contours of what is termed “intellectual novelty” and “affective novelty” in Sanskrit logic—expressions of novelty in which is contained both cognitive and emotional content that, taken together, constitute intellectual life. As these expressions ultimately collapse into each other, the book argue

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Author

Samuel Wright

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197568187

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Anthropology