Thursday, February 18, 2010

 

Prof Jonardon Ganeri has published a work on conceptions of self in Indian ethics and epistemology, The Concealed Art of the Soul (Oxford University Press 2007) [here]. The book argues for a performativist conception of self.

"The startling idea of the Hindu Vedantins, again, is that the way out of colossal error is to embed within the illusion the catalyst of its own destruction. The Upanisad is a ‘Trojan text’, a false gift that will blow up in the mind of its recipient, destroying the error of which it too is a part. It is a false vehicle with a true content.
posted by Sastry Rama 1:37 PM