Dr. Jayandra Soni

Short curriculum vitae

born in Stanger, Natal, South Africa

in 1947.

1972: B.A. University of Durban-Westville, Durban. South Africa.

1975: M.A. (Philosophy) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Thesis: "The Problem of Alienation in Modern European Thought".

1978: Ph.D. (Philosophy) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Thesis: "The Human Predicament: A Critique of Some Philosophical Perspectives."

1987: Ph.D. (Religious Studies) McMaster University, Hamilton. Ontario,Canada.
Thesis: "Toward an Understanding of Man in Saiva Siddhanta: A Study in Philosophical Anthropology."on March 8,
Published as Philosophical Anthropology in Saiva Siddhanta, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989.

From October 1991 till retirement at the end of April 2012: Lecturer at the University of Marburg, Department of Indology and Tibetology to teach Indian Languages (Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati) and Indian Philosophy.

Postal Address with effect from May 2012: Poltenweg 4, A-6080 Vill/Innsbruck, Austria, Europe.

Telephone: +43-512-376121

 

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Knowledge of Languages

English, German, Gujarati (mother tongue), Hindi, Sanskrit.

Publications

 

2012a - Jaina Studies. Proceedings of the DOT 2010 Panel in Marburg, Germany, edited by Jayandra Soni. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. My own contribution: Introduction pp. 1-5 and the article "Jaina Epistemology Revisited: On Erroneous Cognition", pp. 97-112. See: http://www.adityaprakashan.com/index.php

2012b - together with Luitgard Soni: "Sanskrit Studies in Austria, Gernany and Switzerland. 1950-2010". Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan.

2011a -  "Five in One: A Report on Jaina Events in Karnataka". School of Ariental and African Studies (SOAS), Centre of Jaina Studies, Newsletter, March 2011, Issue 6, pp. 17-19. See: http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies/newsletter/


2011b - Edited together with John Raymaker: "Focus On Global Ethics", Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 39.2, June 2011, pp. 193-260. The focus issue contains a "Focus Introduction" by the editors (193-203) and articles by Sumner B. Twiss, Shanta Premawardhana and Ariane Hentsch Cisneros. See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-9795


2010 - "Patanjali's Yoga as Therapeia" in Philosophy as Therapeia. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 66. Edited by Jonardon Ganeri and Clare Carlisle. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 219-232.

 

2009a - "A Section of Vidyanandin's Critique of Buddhism" in Pasadikadanam. Fesctschrift für Bhikkhu Pasadika, ed. Straube, et al. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, pp. 449-458.

 

2009b - Review of Rakshasa's Ring by Vishakhadatta, edited and translated by Michael Coulson (Clay Sanskrit Library). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 159/2, pp. 495-497.

 

2009c - Biogramme und Werkbeschreibungen der Gujarati-Literatur in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Hrsg. von Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler.

 

2009d - Review of Sundar Sarukkai: Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2005. In International Journal of Hindu Studies 13, 2, pp. 235-238.

2009e - Zusammen mit Ram Adhar Mall: Kleines Lexikon der indischen Philosophie. Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber (in der Reihe"Welten der Philosophie" 1).

 

Publications until 2008 here.