What we're reading
A working list rather than a syllabus. It grows when someone brings something better.
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PDFs circulate on the list. Ask if you need one and cannot get it.
- Sheldon Pollock, "Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World," Critical Inquiry 35, no. 4 (2009): 931–61.
- Sheldon Pollock, "Philology and Freedom," Philological Encounters 1 (2016): 4–30.
- Whitney Cox, Modes of Philology in Medieval South India.
- Sophus Helle, "What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections," Poetics Today 43, no. 4 (2022): 611–33.follow its footnotes; several of them belong on this list
- Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, "Oriental Philology after Orientalism," Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities 52 (2021): 120–25.
- Patrick Olivelle, "Unfaithful Transmitters: Philological Criticism and Critical Editions of the Upaniṣads," Journal of Indian Philosophy 26, no. 2 (1998): 173–87.
- Douglas T. McGetchin, Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009).
- Talal Asad, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason (Columbia University Press, 2020).a big-idea book; relevance to be argued about in the room
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