The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy

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CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
	ASPIRATIONS
CHAPTER ONE Grief, Tranquility, and S´a¯nta Rasa in Ravisẹnạ’s Padmapur¯an
	1. INTRODUCTION
	2. RAVISEṆA AND THE PADMAPURA¯ṆA
	3. EMOTION, AESTHETICS, AND S´A¯NTA RASA
	4. STARTING AT THE END: FROM S´OKA TO S´AMA IN THE PADMAPURA¯ṆA
	5. RA¯VAṆA, THE READER, AND NOVEL GRIEF
	6. CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER TWO Emotions in Vis´isṭ¯ạdvaita Ved¯anta1
	1. PREMISE: SOME WORKING DEFINITIONS
	2. EMOTIONS ON ONE’S WAY TO SALVATION: A BRIDGE OR A STUMBLING BLOCK?
	3. LOOKING OUTSIDE VEDA¯NTA FOR DISCUSSING EMOTIONS
	4. ON THE ONTOLOGY OF EMOTIONS IN VIS´ISṬA¯DVAITA VEDA¯NTA
	5. EMOTIONS ON THE WAY TO SALVATION: ON GOOD AND BAD EMOTIONS
	6. INDUCING EMOTIONS: POETRY AS PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
	7. CONCLUSIONS
	ABBREVIATIONS
	NOTES
CHAPTER THREE Joy as Medicine? Yogav¯asisṭḥa and Descartes on the Affective Sources of Disease
	1. INTRODUCTION
	2. ON HOW TO CHOOSE JOYFUL THOUGHTS ACCORDING TO DESCARTES
	3. ON HOW TO SPREAD JOY OVER THE BODY ACCORDING TO VASI S Ṭ ̣ HA
	4. ON HOW A “SICK WOMAN” WOULD RESPOND TO DESCARTES AND VASISṬHA
	5. CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER FOUR Some Analyses of Feeling
	THE “MANY-TYPES-OF-FEELING SUTTA”
	THE CONDITIONS OF FEELINGS
	FEELING WITHIN SCHEMAS
	DEFINING FEELING
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER FIVE Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache,Sı¯ta¯, Yas´odhara¯
	1. INTRODUCTION
	2. “RESTLESS AND STRANGELY BAITED”: HOMER’S ANDROMACHE
	3. SI¯TA¯ IN THE AS´OKA GROVE: SHAMING, BLAMING, FIXING IN A LANDSCAPE
	4. TEARS FOR SIDDHARTHA: YAS´ODHARA¯ THE BUDDHA’S WIFE
	5. THE ETHICS OF AFFECT IN THE WORK OF TEARS
	NOTES
CHAPTER SIX The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and Narrative Thought
	1. INTRODUCTION: THE LIFE OF THE MIND AND THE CLIMATE OF AN AGE
	2. ON PSYCHOLOGICAL DISRUPTION AND MENTAL PAIN
	3. AFFECT AND EXPERIENCE
	4. PAIN AS SOMATIC AND MENTAL EXPERIENCE
	5. THE SALIENCE OF MENTAL PAIN
	6. THE VIEW FROM NARRATIVE
	7. CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER SEVEN Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness: Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the Jı¯vanmuktiviveka
	INTRODUCTION
	THE AHAṂKA¯RIC SPACE OF EXPERIENCE
	EGOITY AND EMBODIED CONDITIONING
	VA¯SANA¯ AND THE KNOWER OF BRAHMAN
	THE JI¯VANMUKTA AND EMOTIONAL UNINVOLVEMENT
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER EIGHT Gesture and Emotion in Tamil S´aiva Devotional Poetry
	WHO IS APPAR?
	EMOTION IN THE WHIRL OF REBIRTH AND REDEATH (SAṂSA¯RA)
	EMOTION IN THE PRESENCE OF S´IVA
	TOWARD A DEVOTIONAL THEORY OF EMOTION
	NOTES
CHAPTER NINE The Emotion that is Correlated with the Comic: Notes on Human Nature Through Rasa Theory1
	EMOTIONS OUT OF AESTHETICS; OR LOOKING AT RASA SIDEWAYS
	THE EMOTION CALLED HA¯SA9
	THE TEXT
	THE OTHERNESS OF THE UPPER-CLASS MALE: THE ANTI-HERO AS FOCUS OF THE COMIC
	UNDERSTANDING HA¯SA: LESSONS FROM “THE KICK”
	CONCLUDING THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS: BETWEEN BHA¯VA AND RASA
	NOTES
CHAPTER TEN Is there a Can˙kam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice, and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry
	THE TEXT
	THE LANDSCAPE “PROBLEM”
	READING TAMIL POEMS FROM THE GROUND UP
	READING TAMIL POEMS FROM THE TOP DOWN
	CONCLUSION
	NOTES
CHAPTER ELEVEN Wretched and Blessed: Emotional Praise in a Sanskrit Hymn from Kashmir
	NOTES
CHAPTER TWELVE Savoring Rasa: Emotion, Judgment, and Phenomenal Content
	INTRODUCING THE CATEGORIES
	BHA¯VA, RASA AND REFLEXIVITY: PROGRESSION FROM BHA¯VA TO RASA
	RASA AND REFLEXIVITY
	IS RASA ALWAYS A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE?
	NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude (viveka) in A´svaghosạ’s Saundarananda
	1. INTRODUCTION1
	2. EXPLICIT REFERENCES TO SOLITUDE (VIVEKA) IN THE SN
	3. THE CONCEPTION OF THE FOREST IN THE SN
	NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX