Samuel Wright is Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University. His research area is the history and philosophy of premodern South Asia.

• Preface and Acknowledgments


• List of Maps


• List of Tables


• English Translations of Sanskrit Titles


• Map 1. Early Modern South Asia: select towns and cities


• Note on Transliteration


• Introduction


• Part I. Newness and Emotion


• Chapter 1 - Doubt


• Chapter 2 - Objectivity


• Part II. Feeling and Reasoning


• Chapter 3 - Happiness


• Chapter 4 - Dying


• Part III. Space and Time


• Chapter 5 - Space


• Chapter 6 - Time


• Conclusion: A Time of Novelty


• Appendix


• Bibliography


• Index

In A Time of Novelty, Samuel Wright re-envisions the relationship between philosophy and history in premodern India through study of the tradition of Sanskrit logic between 1500 and 1700 CE. In examining these logicians, Wright expands the ways in which we study philosophical thought by considering philosophy as deeply immersed in the felt experiences of one's life, at the confluence of thinking and feeling.