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Paul Hacker (Indologist)

Paul Hacker (Indologist)

German indologist

This article is about the German Indologist. For other uses, see Paul Hacker (disambiguation).

Paul Hacker (6 January 1913 — 18 March 1979) was a German Indologist,[1] who coined the term Neo-Vedanta in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta.[2]

Publications

  • Hacker, Paul (1965), Dharma in Hinduism[3]
  • Hacker, Paul (1970), Aspects of Neo-Hinduism as Contrasted with Surviving Traditional Hinduism
  • Hacker, Paul (1995), Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta, SUNY

References

  1. [1]
    Halbfass 1995.
  2. [2]
    Madaio, James (2017), "Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta", Religions, 8 (6): 101, doi:10.3390/rel8060101
  3. [3]
    Hacker, paul; Davis, Donald R. (2006). "Dharma in Hinduism". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 34 (5): 479–496. ISSN 0022-1791 – via JSTOR.

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