Wendy Doniger

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Wendy Doniger (O'Flaherty) (born November 20, 1940 in New York City ) is an American religious historian and Sanskritologist .

Life

Wendy Doniger comes from a Jewish immigrant family. Her father Lester L Doniger (1909–1971) ran an advertising company in Great Neck (New York). During school, the daughter learned to dance with George Balanchine and Martha Graham . Doniger studied Sanskrit and Indology at Radcliffe College until 1962 . In June 1963 she received her MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . From 1963 to 1964 she studied on a scholarship in India . In June 1968, Wendy Doniger received her PhD from Harvard University with Daniel HH Ingalls, Sr., father of Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. , for the first time. She wrote her dissertation on the topic of asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Shiva .

She received her second doctorate in February 1973 from Oxford University on The Origins of Heresy in Hindu Mythology . Your supervisor was Robert Charles Zaehner . Since 1978, Wendy Doniger taught at the University of Chicago . In 1989 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1996 to the American Philosophical Society . In 2015 she received the Friedrich Weller Prize .

Doniger's analysis of the Hindus appeared in 2009 under the title The Hindus. Alternative history. The publication sparked controversy because the author examined Eastern forms of life using psychoanalytic categories. At the beginning of 2014 India Penguin entered into a court settlement in which it undertook to withdraw the bestseller and destroy the remaining copies.

Memberships

Publications

  • R. Gordon Wasson , Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty: Soma . Divine Mushroom of Immortality. , 1969.
  • Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty: The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology. Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1980.
  • Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty: Siva. The Erotic Ascetic. Oxford University Press. 1981, ISBN 978-0-19-520250-2 .
  • Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty: The Rig Veda . New Delhi 1994.
  • Wendy Doniger: Splitting the Difference. Gender and Myth in ancient Greece and India. University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 0-226-15641-9 .
  • Wendy Doniger: The man who committed adultery with his own wife. Commentary by Lorraine Daston . From the American by Christa Krüger and Robin Cackett. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-12102-2 .
  • Wendy Doniger: The Bedtrick. Tales of Sex and Masquerade. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2000.
  • Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar (Ed.): Kamasutra . Annotated new translation from Sanskrit. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002
    • German edition: Kamasutra. Translation from English by Robin Cackett. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-3614-8 .
  • Wendy Doniger: The Hindus. Alternative history. India Penguin / Viking, New Delhi 2009, ISBN 978-0-670-08354-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original title: Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Siva.
  2. ↑ Original title: The Origins of Heresy in Hindu Mythology.
  3. ^ Member History: Wendy Doniger. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 19, 2018 (with a short biography).
  4. ↑ Who is actually obsessed with sex here? in FAZ from February 19, 2014, page N5 ( faz-archiv.de )
personal data
SURNAME Doniger, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Sanskritologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City