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Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions
Episode: Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self" (Routledge, 2020)
Description: For many Indian philosophers, language is inextricably tied up with conceptualization. In Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self (Routledge, 2020), Marco Ferrante shows how a set of tenth century philosophers living in Kashmir argue for the existence of a self on the basis of the interrelationship between linguistic concepts and mental experience, against the criticism of Buddhists. In his examination of Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, famous for their membership in the "school of Recognition" or PratyabhijñÄ, Ferrante traces connections not only back in time to the Sanskrit grammarian and philosopher Bhartáčhari, but forward in time to contemporary analytic philosophy of lan...