Comparative philosophy and the philosophy of scholarship : on the Western interpretation of Nāgārjuna
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Comparative philosophy and the philosophy of scholarship : on the Western interpretation of Nāgārjuna
Oxford University Press, 1990
- : alk. paper
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Bibliography: p. 115-123
Includes index
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This study in cross-cultural hermeneutics examines the role that modern, Western philosophy has played in the interpretation of Nagarjuna's Madhyamikakarika, a second-century Indian-Buddhist text. Tuck locates a structure of distinct phases or "styles" in modern, philosophical history. These phases, Tuck shows, exhibit discontinuous interpretive biases, as well as continuity of hermeneutic intention. Discovering in each philosophical era a chaacteristic attitude towards the text--whether privilege, objectivity, or neutrality--Tuck argues that the continual reinterpretation of earlier scholarly readings is in fact at the core of fruitful hermeneutic pursuit.
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