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David B. Zilberman: Selected Essays

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Authors:
  1. David B. Zilberman

    1. David Zilberman Foundation, Represented by Rachel Zilberman (Heir), Northbrook, USA

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Editors:
  1. Giridhari Lal Pandit

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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  • This book is the first methodological guide for the analysis and application of Zilberman's modal methodology

  • By elaborating Zilberman's methodology, it is a starting-point for analyzing and clarification of philosophical concepts

  • Serves as a great foundation for adding intercultural elements into undergraduate courses focused on Western philosophy

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. Philosophic Elaborations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Semantic Shifts in Epic Composition (On the ‘Modal’ Poetics of the Mahābhārata)

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 3-31

    3. The Emergence of Semiotics in India: Some Approaches to Understanding Lakṣaṇā in Hindu and Buddhist Philosophical Usages

      • David B. Zilberman, A. M. Piatigorsky
      Pages 33-42

    4. On the Philosophical Work of Zilberman (First Brief Introduction)

      • A. M. Piatigorsky
      Pages 43-53

    5. Approaching Discourses Between Three Persons About Modal Methodology and Summa Metaphysicorum

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 55-81

    6. On Cultural Relativism and “Radical Doubt”

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 83-94

    7. Culture-Historical Reconstruction and Mythology in the Anthropology of Paul Radin

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 95-112

    8. Semiotic Function of Kabbalah Mystical Experience in the Interpretation of Historical Situations

      • David B. Zilberman, Dimitri Segal
      Pages 113-127

  3. Philosophic Contemplations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Hegel and Mīmāṃsā: Thinking as Ritual (Outlines of the Imperative Grammar)

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 131-134

    3. The Anticipation of Awakening

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 135-138

    4. Reflections on Ontology in Six Darśaṇas

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 139-161

    5. A Symphony of Looking-Glasses: Hindu Systems of Thought as Cultural “Existents”

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 163-179

    6. Dialectical Psychology (Some Notes on Aristotle’s De Anima)

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 181-204

  4. Sociological Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Orthodox Ethics and the Matter of Communism

      • David B. Zilberman
      Pages 207-268

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-278
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About this book

This book is a selection of articles by David Zilberman, a prolific author, whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish many of his undertakings. Zilberman’s work represents a fresh word in the way of philosophizing or philosophy-building and the technique of modal methodology. This book comprises of thirteen independent articles that are not related by content. The point of thematic convergence of these articles is the way they reflect the new way of methodological thinking through the application and benefits of modalization or modal methodology that unfolds unbound possibilities of philosophic elaborations. By shifting constantly from one position to another, Zilberman disclosed the antinomicity of all types of thought. Such an approach led him to outline for the first time his major attempt to start creating not "systems" but "sums" of philosophies so that the philosophical activity would be able to re-emerge on the slopes of such "sums." The book can be used as a starting point of a discussion, especially in study of philosophy. We imagine it can be used in undergraduate classes on World Philosophies or Intercultural Philosophy courses. With that, it can serve as a useful resource for adding intercultural elements into Western-centered courses.

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Giridhari Lal Pandit

  • David Zilberman Foundation, Represented by Rachel Zilberman (Heir), Northbrook, USA

    David B. Zilberman

About the editor

David B. Zilberman (1938–1977) was a Russian-American philosopher and sociologist, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture. Since 1973, David Zilberman lived in the United States. In 1973 Zilberman was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, New York. In 1974, Zilberman accepted a position as Post-doctoral Fellow with the Committee on South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. For the last two years of his life, Zilberman taught at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, first in the Department of Anthropology, and later in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas. Zilberman taught a variety of courses in Indian and Western philosophy, and related disciplines.

David B. Zilberman died on July 1977 in a car-bicycle collision while returning home from his last seminar with his students at Brandeis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: David B. Zilberman: Selected Essays

  • Authors: David B. Zilberman

  • Editors: Giridhari Lal Pandit

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38909-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: David Zilberman Foundation 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38908-5Published: 11 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38911-5Due: 25 November 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38909-2Published: 10 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLIV, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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