The Indo-German Identification: Reconciling South Asian Origins and European Destinies, 1765-1885

by Robert Cowan

The nineteenth-century development -- and later consequences -- of the imagined relationship between ancient India and modern German culture.

In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany's cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from Indomania to Indophobia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134638
• ISBN13: 9781571134639
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"