"The Veil of Maya": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought (Global Academic Publishing)

ISBN: 1586842439

Author: Berger, Douglas L.

Condition: New

Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer's encounter with ancient India. Schopenhauer, perhaps more than any other Western philosopher, has been associated with Asian, and specifically Indian philosophy. The problem in the last 150 years of commentarial literature has been assessing what his relationship to Indian thought was. Both European and Indian scholars have vacillated over the years from great confidence that Schopenhauer's system was inspired by and even representative of classical Indian thought to a concurrence that Schopenhauer's knowledge of presystematic Hinduism and Buddhism was superficial and his invoking of their ideas was meant to reflect ideas and cultural presuppositions that were his own.