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Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy (review)

Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy (review) serves, like Ibn Arabi's Koran, as the `nonrepresentable origin of representation,' forever giving rise to interpretation whilst somehow remaining tout outre throughout. This idea of the utterly unreachable text seems to mean more to Ibn Arabi than it does to Derrida. The Shaykh refers constantly to his original in order to say what he wants to say, whereas Derrida seems to consider l'origine du texte as an important but ultimately inaccessible memory -- akin to those of early childhood, significant and effective in every moment but nevertheless hopelessly lost to the past. (p. 88) It is not easy to digest some of the arguments in Sufism and Deconstruction, which raises more questions than it resolves. But these questions can be seen as a useful philosophical gesture that has the potential to elevate the approach to Sufi thought beyond the closed texts of the Islamic Studies profession. Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy. By Bina Gupta. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2009. Pp. xii + 305. Hardcover Rs. 500.00. Reviewed by Alan Preti Rosemont College apreti@rosemont.edu In his lecture "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man," delivered in Vienna in 1935 near the end of his life, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy (review)

Philosophy East and West , Volume 62 (2) – Apr 26, 2012

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serves, like Ibn Arabi's Koran, as the `nonrepresentable origin of representation,' forever giving rise to interpretation whilst somehow remaining tout outre throughout. This idea of the utterly unreachable text seems to mean more to Ibn Arabi than it does to Derrida. The Shaykh refers constantly to his original in order to say what he wants to say, whereas Derrida seems to consider l'origine du texte as an important but ultimately inaccessible memory -- akin to those of early childhood, significant and effective in every moment but nevertheless hopelessly lost to the past. (p. 88) It is not easy to digest some of the arguments in Sufism and Deconstruction, which raises more questions than it resolves. But these questions can be seen as a useful philosophical gesture that has the potential to elevate the approach to Sufi thought beyond the closed texts of the Islamic Studies profession. Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy. By Bina Gupta. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2009. Pp. xii + 305. Hardcover Rs. 500.00. Reviewed by Alan Preti Rosemont College apreti@rosemont.edu In his lecture "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man," delivered in Vienna in 1935 near the end of his life,

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Published: Apr 26, 2012

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