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Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata

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  • ISBN: 978-88-6032-113-8
  • Condizioni di accesso: a pagamento
  • Pagine: 254
  • Prezzo: € 28,00
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  • ISBN: 978-88-6032-113-8
  • Condizioni di accesso: a pagamento
  • Pagine: 254
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This volume deals with the Cārvāka/Lokāyata, the most uncompromising materialist school of philosophy in ancient India. Bhattacharya's endeavour has been to disprove certain notions about the Cārvāka/Lokāyata —two of which are generally admitted as being beyond doubt: Cārvāka-s did not approve of any other instrument of cognition except perception, and they advocated unalloyed sensualism and hedonism. In the 23 chapters of the book, the author has tried to show that both the charges are groundless calumnies. He has also established the fact that a pre-Cārvāka school of materialism existed in India, although there is no way to prove that the Cārvāka system grew out of it. A new collection of Cārvāka fragments with sources, variant readings and translation is also provided.

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Titolo del libro

Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata

Autori

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

Opera sottoposta a peer review

Anno di pubblicazione

2009

Anno Copyright

© 2009

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Società Editrice Fiorentina

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CC BY 4.0

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Società Editrice Fiorentina

ISBN Print

978-88-6032-113-8

eISBN (pdf)

978-88-6032-113-8

Collana

Alti Studi di Storia intellettuale e delle Religioni

ISSN

2036-3729

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya taught English at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata and is now Emeritus Fellow, University Grants Commission, India. He was an academic author and exponent of an ancient school of Indian materialism called Carvaka/Lokayata. He authored 27 books and more than 175 research papers on Indian and European literature, textual criticism (Bangla and Sanskrit), the history of science in India, the history of modern India, and philosophy - particularly on the Carvaka/Lokayata system, materialism and rationalism.
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