Ebook: A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics

This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa, or taste, the word Indian intellectuals chose to describe art's aesthetics. A Rasa Reader incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker of classical Indian aesthetics, many never translated before, from rasa's origins in dramaturgical thought—a concept for the stage—to its flourishing in literary thought—a concept for the page. This volume's conceptual detail, historical precision, and clarity will appeal to any scholar interested in a full portrait of global intellectual development.

The first intellectual history of classical Indian thought on aesthetics, with accessible translations of all the major Sanskrit thinkers.