From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined India In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians , inaugurating the West\'s fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization.
Beginning with Schlegel and the later reflections of Schopenhauer on Hinduism and Buddhism, followed by the novels of Hermann Hesse and the anthropological-psychological analyses of Carl Gu.
From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined India In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians , inaugurating the West\'s fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization
