Foreword Dennis M. Kratz PrefaceList of FiguresIntroduction: A Brief Outline of European Orientophilia 1 Introduction 2 Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, an Early Orientophile 3 Does Goethe's Faust Embody Orientophilia? 4 Conclusion1 The Birth of Asian Hermeneutics 1 Introduction 2 The Enlightenment Sources of Contemporary Hermeneutics 3 The Hegelian Discourse of Hermeneutics 4 After Hegel: Hermeneutics of the 19th Century 5 Conclusion2 Herder: the First Radical Orientophile 1 Introduction 2 Herder's Early Discourse on the 'Selbst' (1774-1778) 3 Influence of Leibniz (1776-1781) on Herder's Interpretations of Asiatic Culture 4 Herder's Polemical Orientophilia in the 1780s 5 Radical Hermeneutics versus Missionary Aesthetics of the Asiatic Idol 6 Conclusion3 "A Purely Deceptive Externally Presented Object": Hegel on Oriental Art 1 Introduction 2 Asiatic Arts as Unconscious Symbolic Art 3 Beyond Winckelmann: Hegel's Position Videlicet Progress and Christianity 4 A Geisteswissenschaft or Spiritual Science of Oriental Art 5 Is Absolute Same as Brahman? 6 From Absolute to Concentrative Presence of Asiatic Arts 7 Prepositional Personification of the Art Object 8 Krishna versus Christ 9 Conclusion4 Schopenhauer: beyond Suicide and the Veil of Maya 1 Introduction 2 Orientophilia and Suicide 3 Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer 4 Schopenhauer's Wirklichkeit as Form of Divinity 5 The Hermeneutics of Suicide 6 Conclusion5 As the Dao Flows: Hermeneutics in Fenollosa, Vivekananda and Okakura Kakuzo 1 Introduction 2 The Hegelian Tropes of Fenollosa's Critique 3 More Isolated Observations on Universalism and Japanese Art Forms 4 Fenollosa on Transition from Tang-Song to Zen 5 Okakura and Vivekananda Contra Fenollosa 6 Conclusion6 Hermeneutics of the Idol: the Boston Ethical Society Lectures of Vivekananda 1 Introduction 2 What Does a Symbolic Hermeneutics Truly Imply? 3 Vivekananda: the Brooklyn Lectures of 1894-1896 4 Iconography, Idology and Aesthetics in the February Lecture (1896) 5 Critique of Protestantism and Islam 6 Conclusion7 Philosophia Perennis : Coomaraswamy's Native Hermeneutics of Asiatic Art 1 Introduction 2 From Comparative Religion to History of Ideas 3 Philosophia Perennis : Still an Inadequate Model? 4 Orientalist Coincidences: Rene GuéNon and Coomaraswamy 5 Is the Nataraja an Oriental or European Object? 6 Conclusion8 Einfühlung and Ethnography of the Asian Sacred: a Critique of Clifford Geertz's Native Point of View 1 Introduction 2 Hermeneutics and the Anthropology of Meaning 3 Anthropology of Feeling 4 The Sacred vs the Object 5 Geertz vis à vis Hooykaas 6 Conclusion9 Octavio Paz and Latin American Orientophilia 1 Introduction 2 Jordanus, an Early Medieval Orientophile? 3 Octavio Paz in the Labyrinth of Asia 4 More Definitively Toward the Self and Zero 5 ConclusionConclusion: The Orientalist Turn in Hermeneutics 1 Introduction 2 Indic Neonarrativists 3 ConclusionBibliographyIndex.