Sheldon Pollock

Autor de The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

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Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. His publications include The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (2006) and World Philology (2015). He is founding general editor of the Murty mostrar más Classical library of India, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. mostrar menos

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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (2006) 91 copias

Literary Cultures in History (2003) 31 copias

Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 (2011) 29 copias

A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought) (2016) 27 copias

World Philology (2015) — Editor — 26 copias

Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry (American Oriental Series : Volume 61) (1977) 1 copia

Kritische philologie : essays zu literatur, sprache und macht in Indien und Europa (2015) 1 copia

Crisis in the Classics 1 copia

Murty Classical Library of India 1 copia

Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honour of Robert P. Goldman (2010) 1 copia

What China and India once were : the pasts that may shape the global future (2018) 1 copia

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"Bouquet of Rasa" & "River of Rasa" (Clay Sanskrit Library) (2009) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 12 copias

Margins of writing, origins of cultures (2006) — Contribuidor — 11 copias

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Nombre canónico: Pollock, Sheldon
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Educación: Harvard University (AB|Classics|1971)
Harvard University (AM|Sanskrit and Indian Studies|1973)
Harvard University (PhD|Sanskrit and Indian Studies|1975)
Ocupaciones: professor
Organizaciones: Columbia University (William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies)

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The language of the gods in the world of men … por Sheldon I. Pollock

This highly academic work will be appealing only to those who are interested in pre-modern India, Sanskrit, the Sanskrit culture, and influence of Sanskrit on the many 'local' cultures of India and South Asia. The scope of the subject is endless. The book does not read like a novel, but easy enough for the involved reader. The language power of this University Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies is amazing.

The research and genius that is put into this work is mind-boggling, especially coming from a 'foreigner'. This author is no foreigner to India or South Asia. He has studied the subject in detail more than most Asians.

Each chapter has the scope of being expanded to another book. The author acknowledges the unlimited scope of the issues raised.

The issues discussed are too numerous to mention and highly analytical in nature. Of the many discussions, the processes the author has chosen to tackle the definition of vernaculars and 'vernacularization' are very interesting. The reader may find them pleasing and intermittently amusing. The attempt and effort are painstaking, and the product (the many chapters and the whole book) is phenomenal. The author may have been more influenced by the Kannada culture than any other, because of his association with scholars from the Karnataka.

Many Indians may not welcome the many brave and candid statements such as Mahabharata is political, to name just one.

The endeavour has paid off and the result is brilliant.… (más)