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图书 THE LIFE AND MIND OF ORIENTAL JONES
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In 1964 my earlier biography of Jones, Oriental Jones, was published.Intended to replace the previous, unsatisfactory biographies, it was a somewhat sketchy narrative. It lacked the necessary historiography at that time on the intercivilizational encounter between Britain and India, as well as the experience from extensive travel and residence in India needed to appreciate the cultural situation in which Jones found himself. Although I did use Jones's manuscript letters at Althorp, the lack of annotations precluded my using them fully. My later Letters of Sir William Jones (1970) made available all of his letters known at that time, but many of them were unknown in 1964 and more letters have turned up since 1970. Indeed,six previously unpublished letters are included in this new biography.

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Sir William Jones is best known for his famous Third Discourse of 1786 in which he proposed that Sanskrit's a~nity to Greek and Latin could be explained by positing a common, earlier source, one known today as Indo-European. This brilliant thesis of language families laid the groundwork for modem comparative linguistics.Jones's interests and achievements, however, ranged far beyond language. He studied and made contributions to anthropology and archaeology, to astronomy, botany, history, law, literature, music,physiology, politics, and religion. He served as a Supreme Court justice in India and founded the Asiatic Society, which stimulated worldwide interest in India and the Orient. He was friends with many of the leading intellectuals of his day and corresponded with Benjamin Franklin in America and with Burke, Gibbon, Johnson,Percy, and Reynolds in Britain. In his short life he mastered so many languages that even in his own time he was regarded as a phenomenon, and so he was. Garland Cannon, editor of The Letters of Sir William Jones, has written a definitive biography of this fascinating man, who in his life and works teaches us that the path to understanding and appreciating the art and literature of a great culture very different from our own is through devoted study, a tolerant spirit, and an unquenchably curious mind.

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Preface

Introduction

Chronology of Jones's Life

1 A Barbaric Oriental Conqueror (to 1770)

2 Delicate Arab Maidens and Liquid Ruby (1770--1772)

3 Persian Jones and Constitutional Law (1772-1777)

4 The Athenian and Eleutherion (1778-1780)

5 An Ass Laden with Gold (1780)

6 Politics: Writings and Activism (1780-1782)

7 James River Property (1782-1783)

8 A Vision in the Indian Ocean (1783-1785)

9 A Sacred Oriental Language (1785)

10 A Genetic Explanation: Indo-European (1786-1787)

11 Sanskrit Literary Treasures (1787-1788)

12 An Indian Renaissance (1789)

13 A Burning Tropical Sun (1790-1791)

14 Scholar-Martyr (1791-1794)

15 Jones Today

Appendix: Five New Letters by Jones

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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作者 GARLAND CANNON
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出版社 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
商品编码(ISBN) 9780521025263
开本 16开
页数 409
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出版时间 1990-01-01
首版时间 1990-01-01
印刷时间 2006-01-01
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