Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism

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Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism is written by Swami Medhananda and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197624480 (ISBN 10) and 9780197624487 (ISBN 13).

Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu monk who introduced Vedanta to the West, is undoubtedly one of modern India's most influential philosophers. Unfortunately, his philosophy has too often been interpreted through reductive hermeneutic lenses. Typically, scholars have viewed him either as a modern-day exponent of Sankara's Advaita Vedanta or as a "Neo-Vedantin" influenced more by Western ideas than indigenous Indian traditions. In Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism, Swami Medhananda rejects these prevailing approaches to offer a new interpretation of Vivekananda's philosophy, highlighting its originality, contemporary relevance, and cross-cultural significance. Vivekananda, the book argues, is best understood as a cosmopolitan Vedantin who developed novel philosophical positions through creative engagement with both Indian and Western thinkers.