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Dr Hugo David

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EFEO, Pondicherry, India

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Hugo David is a researcher at the Pondicherry Centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient, which he joined in 2015. His main area of research is the history of Indian philosophical systems and traditions of linguistic analysis, with a focus on Sanskrit grammar, poetics and Vedic exegesis. His doctoral thesis, submitted in 2012 at the École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), consisted of a critical edition, French translation and study of the Śābdanirṇaya (“An Inquiry into Verbal Knowledge”) by the 10th-century Advaitin Prakāśātman. Before joining the EFEO, he was active at the University of Cambridge (2013-14) and at the Institute for the Intellectual and Cultural History of Asia in Vienna (2015). He is engaged in a study of chapters 26-30 of the Maṇimēkalai and related doxographical works (especially Nīlakēci and the commentary by Vāmana).

Publications

  • “Speaking of the Individual: Prakāśātma’s akhaṇḍārthavāda and the beginnings of a theory of language in Classical Advaita-Vedānta”; to be published in The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language (in Press).
  • “Towards a Critical Editions of Śaṅkara’s ‘Longer’ Aitareyopaṇiṣadbhāṣya: A Preliminary Report Based on two Cambridge Manuscripts.” In: Indic Manuscript Culture through the Ages: Material, Textual and Historical Investigations. Cuneo, Daniele/Formigatti, Camillo/Vergiani, Vincenzo (eds.), Studies in Manuscript Cultures, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, pp. 727-754.
  • “Les définitions de l’énoncé dans la tradition sanskrite: entre grammaire et exégèse”, Langages 205 (2017): 27-41.
  • “Une ontologie du commandement? Réflexions sur l’idée d’existence, l’impératif et l’objet du Veda”, ThéoRèmes 11 (2017); Open Access (https://theoremes.revues.org/1216).
  • “Les origines du Vedānta comme tradition scolastique: état du problème, nouvelles hypothèses”, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 102 (2016): 9-44 (published in April, 2017).
  • “Time, Action and Narration: on some Exegetical Sources of Abhinavagupta’s Aesthetic Theory”; Journal of Indian Philosophy 1 (2016): 125-144.
  • “Theories of Human Action in Early Medieval Brahmanism (600-1000): Activity, Speech and Desire”, Journal of Value Inquiry 49 (2015): 567-595.
  • “Action Theory and Scriptural Exegesis in Early Advaita-Vedānta (1): Maṇḍana Miśra on upadeśa and iṣṭasādhanatā”; p. 269-316 in Eltschinger, V. and Krasser, H. (eds). Scriptural Authority, Reason, and Action. Proceedings of a Panel at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyōto, September 1-5, 2009. Vienna: ÖAW-Verlag, 2013.
  • “A Contribution of Vedānta to the History of Mīmāṃsā. Prakāśātman’s interpretation of ‘verbal effectuation’ (śabdabhāvanā)”; p. 79-105 in Mirnig, N.; Szántó, P.-D. and Williams, M. (eds). Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. 1. Oxford: Oxbow books, 2013.
  • “Nouvelles tendances dans l’étude de la Mīmāṃsā”; Bulletin de l’École française d’ExtrêmeOrient 99 (2012-2013): 395-408 (published in 2014).