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Text and Authority in the Older Upaniṣads
The Upaniṣads have often been treated as a unified corpus of religious and philosophical texts, separate from the older Vedic tradition. It is well known that the Upaniṣads were initially composed and transmitted within specific schools of Vedic recitation, or Śākhās, but the Śākhā affiliation of each Upaniṣad has received very little attention in the scholarly literature. The author offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniṣads in the light of the Vedic school affiliations of each text. This book argues that issues of textual authority, and in particular the authority of the various Vedic schools, are central in the Upaniṣads, and that the Upaniṣads can, on one level, be read as texts about text. While analyzing the theme of textual authority in the Upaniṣads, the author also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to orally transmitted texts that will be of use to textual scholars in other fields as well.
Die Einheit der Wissenschaften
Diese Arbeit verdankt ihr Entstehen ausgedehnten Archivstudien zur Geschichte des 1879 gegründeten traditionsreichen "Aachener Geschichtsvereins", während deren ich auch auf einen Teil der hier ausgewerteten und veröffentlichten Quellen stieß. Weitere Forschungen vermochten das zunächst ermittelte Material entschei dend zu ergänzen. Dabei durfte ich mich der freundlichen und kollegialen Unterstützung der Archive erfreuen, welche, soweit erforderlich, die in Frage kommenden Akten oft über längere Zeit zur Benutzung in Aachen zur Verfügung stellten und bereitwillig mancherlei Fragen beantworteten. Ihnen gilt daher mein erster Dank. Die Direk tion des Zentralen Staatsarchivs zu Merseb...
