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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.378kg ISBN: 9780190499280ISBN 10: 0190499281 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 15 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this marvelous, well-written and engaging book, Wendy Doniger shows us how Vatyayana's famous treatise about pleasure draws on another famous treatise about politics, Kautilya's Arthashastra the two perennial concerns of human beings, sex and politics, come together within the boundary of social duty and obligation. There has never been a book quite like this. It describes the Kamasutra's historical context, places it in relation to the early history of Sanskrit literature concerned with the purposes of life, and discusses its contemporary relevance. Written with style and verve this book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of Indian civilization or the broader history of human desire. --Gavin Flood, Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, Oxford University With seasoned wisdom and a heart irrepressibly young, Wendy Doniger offers us an elegant exposition of the Kamasutra. She shows it to be wide-ranging, astute about love's politics, and deeply committed not just to good sex but to all aspects of the good life. Redeeming the Kamasutra beckons modern readers to a fresh encounter with an ancient, strikingly contemporary text. --John Stratton Hawley, author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement Not for nothing is Wendy Doniger widely esteemed today as a paragon among Indologists, by virtue of her wit, her learning and the accessibility of her writings. In this original work she offers striking new insights into what the Kamasutra can teach us about ancient Indian society, and how it relates to Sanskrit texts on other branches of Indian knowledge. She is a Horace of our age, finding nothing human to which she feels no kinship. --Richard Gombrich, author of What the Buddha Thought Doniger's prose cuts to the chase, and her book delights and informs the lay reader. Erudite, entertaining, and to the point, this work demonstrates her talent for clear thinking and clear writing. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review In this marvelous, well-written and engaging book, Wendy Doniger shows us how Vatyayana's famous treatise about pleasure draws on another famous treatise about politics, Kautilya's Arthashastra the two perennial concerns of human beings, sex and politics, come together within the boundary of social duty and obligation. There has never been a book quite like this. It describes the Kamasutra's historical context, places it in relation to the early history of Sanskrit literature concerned with the purposes of life, and discusses its contemporary relevance. Written with style and verve this book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of Indian civilization or the broader history of human desire. --Gavin Flood, Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, Oxford University With seasoned wisdom and a heart irrepressibly young, Wendy Doniger offers us an elegant exposition of the Kamasutra. She shows it to be wide-ranging, astute about love's politics, and deeply committed not just to good sex but to all aspects of the good life. Redeeming the Kamasutra beckons modern readers to a fresh encounter with an ancient, strikingly contemporary text. --John Stratton Hawley, author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement Not for nothing is Wendy Doniger widely esteemed today as a paragon among Indologists, by virtue of her wit, her learning and the accessibility of her writings. In this original work she offers striking new insights into what the Kamasutra can teach us about ancient Indian society, and how it relates to Sanskrit texts on other branches of Indian knowledge. She is a Horace of our age, finding nothing human to which she feels no kinship. --Richard Gombrich, author of What the Buddha Thought frank, brief, clear-eyed essays. Nicola Barker, Spectator Ever since the third century, the Kamasutra has been labelled in the West as the ultimate lexicon of love, but the praise of the ooh, ah brigade has led to its denigration in India. Westerners leaf through the pages which they believe pigeon-hole women as passive play things of men, while the Kamasutra actually is a much more complete guide to all aspects of life such as grooming, etiquette, hygiene and the arts. Women are treated as equal individuals, not men's objects of desire. It actually promotes equal rights, and at last someone has stood up and said so. Steve Craggs, Northern Echo Author InformationWendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of over 30 books, including On Hinduism and The Hindus: An Alternative History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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