Maria Heim - The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy

Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy

Series Editors

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, UK

Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Editorial Advisory Board

Roger Ames, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA; Doug Berger, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, USA; Carine Defoort, Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium; Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, USA; Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK; Chenyang Li, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ronnie Littlejohn, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Asian Studies, Belmont University, USA; Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Bringing together established academics and rising stars, Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy survey philosophical topics across all the main schools of Asian thought. Each volume focuses on the history and development of a core subject in a single tradition, asking how the field has changed, highlighting current disputes, anticipating new directions of study, illustrating the Western philosophical significance of a subject and demonstrating why a topic is important for understanding Asian thought.

From knowledge, being, gender and ethics, to methodology, language and art, these research handbooks provide up-to-date and authoritative overviews of Asian philosophy in the twenty-first century.

Available Titles

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender, edited by Ann A. Pang White

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies, edited by Sor-hoon Tan

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy, edited by Michiko Yusa

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy, edited by Alexus McLeod

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics, edited by Shyam Ranganathan

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender, edited by Veena R. Howard

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language, edited by Alessandro Graheli

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vednta, edited by Ayon Maharaj

Gregory M. Clines is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His research focuses on Jain Rmyaa literature in Sanskrit and north Indian vernaculars and early modern Digambara Jainism in north India. He is also interested in Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory. His work has appeared in the journals Religions, South Asian History and Culture, and the International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online).

Elisa Freschi works on Sanskrit Philosophy and more specifically on topics of epistemology of testimony, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, deontic logic, and on the re-use of texts in South Asian intellectual traditions. She is a convinced upholder of reading Sanskrit philosophical texts within their history and understanding them through a philosophical approach. She worked at the University of Vienna and as research leader of projects on Viidvaita Vednta and on deontic logic and Mms at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto.

Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, and was educated at Reed College and Harvard University. Her recent books, Voice of the Buddha (Oxford 2018) and The Forerunner of All Things (Oxford 2014), focus on Buddhaghosa. Her current interests center on emotions in Sanskrit and Pali texts.

Steven P. Hopkins is Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Swarthmore College. His major field of scholarship is South Indian devotional literature in Tamil and Sanskrit, with special attention to the work of medieval South Indian saint-poet and philosopher Vekathantha, though he has published widely in the area of comparative religious literatures. He has published three books on Vekaea with Oxford University Press, most recently The Flight of Love (2016), and was awarded the 2010 A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation. He is currently completing a comparative study of womens laments in Greek, Hindu, and Buddhist literatures.

Sonam Kachru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the history of philosophy, with particular attention to the history of Buddhist philosophy in ancient South Asia, centering on topics in the philosophy of mind (consciousness, attention, imagination), metaphysics, and philosophical anthropology. His essays have appeared in the Journal of Indian Philosophy; Journal of the American Oriental Society; Sophia, and The Journal of Religion, among other places. His first book, Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.

James Madaio is a fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is associate editor of The Journal of Hindu Studies and regional editor (Indic traditions) for Bloomsburys Introductions to World Philosophies book series. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester and was previously a fellow at New Europe College (Bucharest), an affiliated researcher at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai), and a lecturer at Charles University and the University of Maryland.

Ana Laura Funes Maderey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University (ESCU) where she teaches Asian Philosophies, East-West Comparative topics in Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophies. Her research seeks to establish dialogues between phenomenology, feminism, and notions of bodily self-awareness in the Indian philosophical schools of Skhya, Yoga, and Vednta. She recently co-edited with Christopher Chapple the book Thinking with the Yoga Stra: Translation, Interpretation.

Anne Monius was Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, where she taught for seventeen years, educating and mentoring countless students in Tamil and Sanskrit cultures. Her undergraduate and PhD work were also from Harvard. Her research centered on the literary cultures and the histories of religion in South India. She authored Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India (Oxford 2001).

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, and Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent books are Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries, and Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India. He has written over fifty papers on a variety of topics in Indian and comparative philosophy, politics and political thought, and Indian religions.