Ebook: Santarasa and Abhinavagupta's philosophy of aesthetics

Abhinavagupta is generally considered to be the greatest of the many Indian writers in the field of
poetics.The breadth and profundity of his intellect, and the originality and brilliance of his critical
insight, entitle him to a distinguished place in the ranks of philosophers of aesthetics of all lands
and all periods of history.

This tenth century Kashmiri scholar advanced ideas in every way as interesting and sophisticated
as those propounded by Aristotle, yet his work is virtually unknown in the West beyond a very
small circle of Sanskritists It is to remedy this situation by making some of the centralinsights
of Abhinavagupta available to literary critics and theinterestedlayman that the authors offer the
present volume. Most of the material they present has never before been translated.