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Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion de Ayon Maharaj

Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion

Autor Ayon Maharaj
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2018

În Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality, observăm o schimbare de paradigmă în abordarea figurii lui Sri Ramakrishna, trecând de la imaginea clasică a misticului extatic la cea a unui filosof sofisticat, cu o relevanță contemporană majoră. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Ayon Maharaj utilizează sursele originale în limba bengaleză pentru a reconstrui pozițiile filosofice ale lui Ramakrishna, oferind o alternativă solidă la modelele occidentale dominante de pluralism religios. Elementul central al volumului este conceptul de 'vijñana' — cunoașterea intimă a Realității Infinite ca fiind simultan personală și impersonală. Prin această lentilă, autorul reevaluează dezbateri fundamentale despre experiența mistică și valoarea sa epistemică, propunând în același timp un răspuns inedit la problema răului care rezonează cu teismul sceptic modern.

Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Reality and Mystical Experience de F. Samuel Brainard, dar cu o abordare mult mai ancorată în exgeza textuală specifică tradiției indiene și în dialogul intercultural direct, spre deosebire de analiza comparativă mai generală a lui Brainard. De asemenea, dacă Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna oferă acces la latura devoțională, volumul de față servește drept partener academic necesar, transformând mărturia mistică în argument filosofic structurat. În contextul operei autorului, cartea continuă efortul de reevaluare a figurilor centrale ale modernității hinduse, temă prezentă și în The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta, unde Ayon Maharaj a coordonat analize despre sistemele Vedantice. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe contextul istoric, aici Ayon Maharaj prioritizează rigoarea analitică, poziționându-l pe Ramakrishna ca un interlocutor valid pentru filosofii religiei de astăzi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190868239
ISBN-10: 0190868236
Pagini: 370
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților care doresc să depășească interpretările pur biografice ale misticismului indian. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a conceptului de 'vijñana' și descoperă cum tradiția hindusă poate oferi soluții riguroase la probleme filosofice universale, precum pluralismul religios sau natura divinității. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine este interesat de dialogul autentic între filosofia orientală și cea occidentală.

Despre autor

Ayon Maharaj este un academician specializat în filosofie și studii religioase, recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale la înțelegerea gândirii indiene moderne din perspectivă analitică. În prezent, ocupă poziția de profesor asociat și șef al departamentului de filosofie la Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute. Opera sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre tradiția Vedanta și filosofia contemporană a religiei. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără și volumul dedicat lui Swami Vivekananda, unde explorează moștenirea acestuia într-un context global, demonstrând o capacitate remarcabilă de a media între rigoarea academică occidentală și profunzimea spirituală estică.

Descriere

Sri Ramakrishna is widely known as a nineteenth-century Indian mystic who affirmed the harmony of all religions on the basis of his richly varied spiritual experiences and eclectic religious practices, both Hindu and non-Hindu. In Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality, Ayon Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna was also a sophisticated philosopher of great contemporary relevance.Through a careful study of Sri Ramakrishna's recorded oral teachings in the original Bengali, Maharaj reconstructs his philosophical positions and analyzes them from a cross-cultural perspective. Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual journey culminated in the exalted state of "vijñana", his term for the "intimate knowledge" of God as the Infinite Reality that is both personal and impersonal, with and without form, immanent in the universe and beyond it. This expansive spiritual standpoint of vijñana, Maharaj contends, opens up a new paradigm for addressing central issues in cross-cultural philosophy of religion, including divine infinitude, religious pluralism, mystical experience, and the problem of evil. Sri Ramakrishna's vijñana-based religious pluralism--when grasped in all its subtlety--proves to have major philosophical advantages over dominant Western models. Moreover, his mystical testimony and teachings not only cut across long-standing debates about the nature of mystical experience but also bolster recent defenses of its epistemic value. Maharaj further demonstrates that Sri Ramakrishna's unique response to the problem of evil resonates strongly with Western "soul-making" theodicies and contemporary theories of skeptical theism. A pioneering interdisciplinary study of one of India's most important philosopher-mystics, Maharaj's book is essential reading for scholars and students in philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and Hindu studies.

Recenzii

The book endeavors to deviate from and transcend the objectives and the regular methodological toolkit of comparative philosophy, with the aim of bringing Sri Ramakrishna into a genuine philosophical dialogue with Western philosophers.
The book is a meticulous reconstruction and a commendable revitalization of the philosophical potentials for contemporary religious philosophy of one of India's venerated religious thinkers, whose unique merits for crosscultural studies are well worth to be exploited for further studies.
Ramakrishna's philosophical position shines clearly, with powerful contemporary significance, in Ayon Maharaj's [book]. I find myself continually agreeing and cheering along as Maharaj shows how Ramakrishna's views have greater coherence and explanatory power than those of many of the most read and best respected philosophers of religion... I am impressed, as well, with how Maharaj deploys these aspects of Ramakrishna's Vijñāna Vedānta to highlight and transcend limitations in current approaches to religious pluralism, mysticism, and the problem of evil. It would be difficult to deny, after reading this work, that Ramakrishna deserves a hearing among philosophers of religion.
Ayon Maharaj's Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross- Cultural Philosophy of Religion is a fine philosophical inquiry, well-thought-out, -researched, -argued, and -written. It is refreshing to see so thoughtful and learned a book of philosophy arising through dedicated attention to Ramakrishna; it should be from now on a noted entry in the Ramakrishna bibliography. Maharaj is a careful reader of both primary and secondary writings on Ramakrishna; he is impressively learned in contemporary analytic philosophy and theories of religious epistemology; and he zealously weaves together these two currents of thought. He is seeking also to model a rapprochement that goes beyond commending Indians to think like Westerners...For all of this, I can only commend Maharaj's work.
This is a richly thought-provoking work, written with a philosophical acumen that demands response and calls for appreciation and further discussion in equal measure. As a philosophical interpretation of Ramakrishna's words, Maharaj's book is a landmark attempt, giving its subject the serious intellectual attention it deserves, which will encourage, I hope, similar studies on what remains a topic of global historical importance.
Ayon Maharaj's Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion is an excellent book. It contributes to cross-cultural philosophy of religion by showing not only that a profound philosophical dialogue between prima facie different philosophical traditions is possible and needed, but also by making a clear case that Western philosophy in fact can benefit enormously from Ramakrishna's philosophy of religion.
Ramakrishna is better known as a mystic than as a systematic thinker, but Ayon Maharaj's Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion makes a compelling case for his relevance to cross-cultural philosophy of religion. Maharaj offers an admirable interpretation—really a reconstruction—of the philosophy underlying Ramakrishna's teachings; but the book's real strength lies in the way it puts these teachings into conversation with the work of contemporary philosophers of religion.
It is refreshing and encouraging to read a book that not only examines the larger Indic tradition in a comparative and philosophical analysis, but also finds useful and fruitful interlocutors with the larger European tradition. This is certainly a unique style of philosophy and one that opens new possibilities, and it remains to be seen whether others will engage with it and adopt this style in the future. While the risks of such a vast project are great—it is hard enough to adequately grasp one, let alone two cultures well—the possible reward of a deeper understanding between India and Europe on essential issues is even greater.
We should be grateful for Maharaj's work to construct such a stable cross-cultural intellectual basis from which to reinterpret Sri Ramakrishna's contemporary relevance. Teachers and students of religious studies, comparative theology, interreligious dialogue, and contemporary analytic philosophy will be drawn to this text; and owing to what I consider Maharaj's devotion-as-scholarship, they will be enticed to encounter more deeply the matchless Sri Ramakrishna.
Maharaj has given the world of religious literature a historically important work that situates Sri Ramakrishna as a philosopher in his own right. Maharaj's work brings home the urgency to actively engage with Indian thought that is often hidden in the precepts of saints and mystics. A pioneering and comprehensive scholarly work, Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality is highly readable and would serve as a great resource for scholars of religious studies, philosophy, hermeneutics, theology, Indian studies, and Sri Ramakrishna.
Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality is a pathbreaking work. It is a philosophically astute, textually scrupulous, and imaginatively subtle reconstruction of Ramakrishna Paramhansa's teachings... Infinite Reality is a delight to read: clear, accessible, fair-minded and rigorous. Its philosophical charms are complemented by a musicality about experience.

Notă biografică

Ayon Maharaj is Assistant Professor and Head of Philosophy at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute in West Bengal, India. He is also an ordained Brahmacarin, with the name of Buddhacaitanya, in training to be a Sannyasin monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Holding a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, he has published over a dozen articles on Indian, German, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno (2013) and the editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta.