Tagore, Einstein and the Nature of Reality: Literary and Philosophical Reflections

ISBN-13: 9780367731335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Partha Ghose

Opis

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity.

Spis treści

Introduction. Preamble: A Man-Centric View: Poet and Scientist Bimal Krishna Matilal 1. Poetic Reality Nirmalangshu Mukherji 2. Too Big a Bang for Language: Tagore’s Critique Reloaded Probal Dasgupta 3. Tagore’s Truth Amiya Dev 4. Seeing things: Tagore’s Sense of the Real Supriya Chaudhuri 5. Science and the World of Personality Shefali Moitra 6. Positing the Human in the Human Sciences Sourin Bhattacharya 7. Why the Moth Cannot be a Poet Saranindranath Tagore 8. Tagore-Wittgenstein Interface: The Poet’s Activism and Virtue Ethics Sitansu Sekhar Chakravarti 9. Two Conceptions of Reality: Tagore and Einstein Syed Sayeed 10. Reality and Intelligibility Bijoy Boruah 11. The Creative Mind: A Mirror or a Component of Reality? Ashish Lahiri

O autorze

Partha Ghose is a theoretical physicist and Honorary Scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, India. He retired as Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata in 1999. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India; the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; and former Chairman of the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. He specializes in the foundations of quantum mechanics and unified theories. He was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for the popularization of science by the Indian National Science Academy. His exposition of Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy and music has found expression in several scholarly papers. His publications include the book Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground (1999).