The Idea of Surplus: Tagore and Contemporary Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780815376613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 254 str.

Mrinal Miri

Opis

This volume reflects upon Tagore’s critique of nationalism, aesthetic worldview, surplus in man and ideas that form a recurrent theme his life and works. It tries to establish the historical and cultural connections between his rich experiential inner self with the myriad changes in the world and its rendering in human and social sciences.

Spis treści

Prologue  Introduction  1. On the Interface between Philosophical Anthropology and Social Science: A Perspective from Tagore  2. Unexamined Lives: Rabindranath’s Critique of Education in Guru and Totakahini  3. Liberal Arts Education and Tagore 4.Tagore and the Problem of Evil  5. Aami Kaobi: An Enquiry into the Poets in Tagore’s Fiction and their Relation with Nationalist Culture 6. Tagore’s Ideas on Nationalism: A Contemporary Perspective 7. Tagore and Gandhi: On Matters of Truth and Untruth  8. Rabindranath Tagore: Dance,  Music, Spirituality and Science 9. Rabindranath’s Oeuvre and Dialogues with Ecology and Culture 10. Artistic Creativity: Tagore and the Tribesmen  11. Rabindranath Tagore and Androgyny 12. Self in Tagore’s Notion of History: A Project of Liberation? 13. Ecocentric thoughts in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore: An illustrative study

O autorze

Mrinal Miri is a Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, India.