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Loriliai Biernacki, The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism and the New Materialism, Oxford University Press, 2023, 264pp., $98.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197643075.
Reviewed by Swami Medhananda, University of California Los Angeles /University of Southern California
In the past few decades, philosophers writing on Indian philosophy have thankfully moved beyond the project of merely comparing Indian thinkers and arguments with their western counterparts, exploring instead new and more fruitful methodological approaches to Indian philosophy that go by various names such as “fusion philosophy,” “borderless philosophy,” “cross-cultural philosophy,” and “global philosophy.” Although there are subtle differences in these methodologies, what they all share is the primary aim of developing original philosophical positions and arguments by drawing upon the conceptual resources of both Indian and western philosophy.
Loriliai Biernacki’s creative and thought-provoking book, The Matter of Wonder, is a valuable new contribution to borderless philosophy, in spite of the problems I raise in this review. She argues that the panentheistic metaphysics articulated by…
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