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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
List of Abbreviations | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Contesting the Unity of Hinduism | p. 1 |
Vijñanabhiksu and His Late Medieval Milieu | p. 6 |
Doxography and Method | p. 9 |
Premodern Philosophy in a Postcolonial World | p. 14 |
An Alternative History of Vedanta | p. 24 |
Vedanta and Orientalist Historiography | p. 24 |
Early Bhedabheda Vedanta | p. 26 |
Bhedabheda Vedanta After Sankara | p. 30 |
The Future of Bhedabheda Vedanta | p. 37 |
Vijñanabhiksu's "Difference and Non-Difference" Vedanta | p. 39 |
The Meaning of "Bhedabheda" | p. 39 |
Self and Brahman as Part and Whole | p. 50 |
Brahman's Causality in Advaita and Bhedabheda Vedanta | p. 56 |
Bhedabheda and the Unity of Philosophies | p. 65 |
A History of God in Samkhya and Yoga | p. 67 |
Samkhya: An Atheist Philosophy? | p. 67 |
Theism in Early Samkhya and the Puranas | p. 69 |
Atheism and Theism in "Classical" Samkhya | p. 76 |
Samkhya and Yoga | p. 79 |
Reading Against the Grain of the Samkhyasutras | p. 84 |
Atheism in the Samkhyasutras | p. 84 |
Kapila's "Bold Assertion" as Speech Act | p. 90 |
Degrees of Deception in Samkhya and the Puranas | p. 96 |
Disproving God in the Samkhyasutras | p. 100 |
Yoga, Praxis, and Liberation | p. 108 |
The Excellence of the Yogic Path | p. 108 |
Karma and Embodied Liberation | p. 114 |
The Unity of Yoga and Vedanta Soteriologies | p. 118 |
Vedanta and Samkhya in the Orientalist Imagination | p. 124 |
Indian Philosophy and the Critique of Orientalism | p. 124 |
Colebrooke and Gough: The Struggle for the Essence of Vedanta | p. 128 |
Paul Deussen and the Influence of German Idealism | p. 133 |
Richard Garbe: Samkhya as the Foundation of Indian Philosophy | p. 138 |
Orientalism and Modern Hindu Thought | p. 142 |
Doxography, Classificatory Schemes, and Contested Histories | p. 144 |
Doxography as a Genre | p. 144 |
Early Models for Doxography in India: Cattanar and Bhaviveka | p. 148 |
Haribhadra, Jainism, and the Six Systems | p. 154 |
Madhava and the Influence of Advaita Doxography | p. 158 |
Madhusudana Sarasvati: Foreignness and the Philosophical Other | p. 163 |
Affirmers (Astikas) and Deniers (Nastikas) In Indian History | p. 166 |
Toward a Comparative Heresiology | p. 166 |
The Meaning of Astika and Nastika | p. 168 |
Perspectives from the Jainas, Buddhists, and Grammarians | p. 172 |
Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy | p. 176 |
astika and Nastika in the Late Medieval Period | p. 179 |
Hindu Unity and the Non-Hindu Other | p. 185 |
Inclusivism and Hindu Toleration | p. 185 |
Decoding Late Medieval Doxography | p. 190 |
The Absence of Islam | p. 192 |
Hinduism: A Modern Invention? | p. 196 |
Communalism, Universalism, and Hindu Identity | p. 201 |
Notes | p. 207 |
Bibliography | p. 239 |
Index | p. 251 |
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