Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Mar 17, 2022 · 43m

Samuel Wright's A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E. (Oxford UP, 2021) argues that a philosophical community emerges in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India that crafts an intellectual life on the basis of intellectual and emotional responses to novelty in Sanskrit logic (nyāya-śāstra). As the book demonstrates, novelty was a primary concept used by Sanskrit logicians during this period to mark the boundaries of a philosophical community in both intellectual and emotional terms. By retaining space for emotion when studying…