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| In the link below you will find a review of David Gordon White: The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali - A Biography. My essay - The Iron Cage of Hermeneutics - is discussing how to make sense of ancient metaphysical texts. My essay show that the traditional method of painstaking translating and interpreting old text has its limitations. Such methodology needs to be supplemented with methodologies from cultural sociology. To understand texts and their discourses we need to look deep into the history and culture they evolve from and are an integral part of. |
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AuthorI have been involved with yoga asana on and off since the late 1970s. During those years the role of yoga in society has changed dramatically. This blog aims to create debate and awareness of those changes. Archives
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