[Y-Indology] De-Essentializing the 'Eastern Wisdom'.

[Guest guest]

To Richard Mahoney:

 

Thanks for mentioning Jay Garfield's work. Please visit the site at:

http://www.infinityfoundation.com/haw.htm. You will see that we have worked

with Garfield, and that in December, 1998 we had him over for talks at U of

Hawaii. You also mention East-West Center in Hawaii, and yes, we have a

working relationship with them as well. In fact, the 15-part Infinity

Foundation Lecture Series is to be published as a special edition of their

esteemed journal. In my earlier post, I had mentioned that amongst all major

US universities, the only places where we found them giving a PhD in IP from

a philosophy department are: U of Hawaii and U-Texas(Austin). That U of

Hawaii is one place sympathetic to IP is therefore already known to us. But

you fail to get the point - the DISTRIBUTION of IP within mainstream

philosophy is miniscule. Are you aware that a PhD in religious studies will

NOT position you well for a good job in a philosophy department. Do you know

the distinctions amongst these fields?

 

To Dmitri:

 

I am merely presenting my case for Eurocentrism, which is what I was invited

to do, and I am focusing on philosophy departments. Please don't worry that

philosophy departments might start to listen to me - you are quite safe. To

appreciate 'Essentialism', and its relationship with Orientalism as a cause

and Distortionism as an effect, please read the lecture by Richard W.

Lariviere at: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/gondalecture.html.

 

 

Rajiv Malhotra

The Infinity Foundation

53 White Oak Drive

Princeton, NJ 08540

www.infinityfoundation.com

[Guest guest]

INDOLOGY, dmitrinet wrote:>

> I wonder if you, or other people trying to tell Western scholars

> what they should or should not research/teach (futile task, by the

> way), ever apllied the above Nietzsche quote to the stuff you'd

> like to be tought in Western Universities?

 

Rajiv Malhotra is certainly trying. It is good to know that he WILL

fail; this will necessitate a redoubled effort. That is the central

point of eurocentrism, a faith that the superior *E or *IE is the

Uhreimat and everything -- all thought, everything cultural packaged

in an elite kit -- flows from their wanderlust. This faith reflects in

the curricula of western universities (Europe and US included).