文档介绍：DERRIDA AND INDIAN PHILOSOPHY HAROLD COWARD STATE UNIVERSITY OP NEW YORK PRESS Published by State University of New York Press, Albany ? 1990 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, ., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coward, Harold G. Derrida and Indian Philosophy / Harold Coward. . Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-7914-0499-4 (alk. paper). -ISBN 0-7914-0500-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Derrida, Jacques. 2. Philosophy, Indic. I. Title. 194-dc20 ********** 90-32875 eli> CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Introduction 1 ONE Philosophy East and West 15 Two Derrida and Bhartrhari's Vtikyapadiya on the Origin of Language 27 THREE Derrida and Bhartrhari on Speech and Writing 49 FOUR Derrida and Sankara 81 FIVE Derrida and Aurobindo 99 SIX Derrida and Nagarjuna 125 S EVEN Conclusion 147 NOTES 159 INDEX 191 To my father" Lincoln, who has lived his life in service to others ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ONE of the many joys of working in an interdisci- plinary research institute is that one's research interests are constantly stimulated from new and surprising directions. My interest in Derrida was seeded and developed by contact with literature scholars who have worked in the institute in the past few years. One particular event that focused my attention in this direction was a project that brought together writers of poetry and fiction, lit- erary critics, and scholars of sacred scriptures to examine the way in which words do or do not evoke the transcendent. My anizer in this project was E. D. Blodgett, a poet and scholar of comparative