L’oubli des Russes: An (Almost) Forgotten Chapter in the History of 19th-century Orientalism

The present article responds to Roger-Pol Droit’s contributions to the study of the European confrontation with Indian and Buddhist philosophy, above all in his L’oubli de l’Inde and Le Culte du Néant, by interrogating the peculiar reception history, in Germany and in France, of the masterpiece...

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主要作者: Kapstein, Matthew T.
格式: Article ou chapitre numérique
語言:Français
出版: 2019
在線閱讀:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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總結:The present article responds to Roger-Pol Droit’s contributions to the study of the European confrontation with Indian and Buddhist philosophy, above all in his L’oubli de l’Inde and Le Culte du Néant, by interrogating the peculiar reception history, in Germany and in France, of the masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian scholarship in this area, Vasily P. Vasilyev’s Buddhism, Its Dogmatics, History and Literature (St. Petersburg 1857). In particular, we seek to clarify the unusual political background of the opposing and contested French and German translations.