The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Ind... - 9781350234819

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian PhilosophyAuthor(s): Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350234819, 978-1350234819\nSynopsis\nDrawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. \n\n Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion, without pre-judging what that might be. The result is .