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Aesthetic Distance
Ananda Bazar Patrika
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Awful Loveliness
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Char Adhyaya
comparative religion
educational reform India
environmental ethics
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Existential Level
Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement
Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement
Green Corn
Harmonious Society
Hibbert Lectures
Hindu Marriage
Hindu Muslim Problem
holistic worldview in modern India
Indian philosophy
Isha Upanishad
Kadambari Devi
Manu Samhita
Non-cooperation Movement
Non-utilitarian Ground
Rabindranath Tagore
socio-political thought
spiritual humanism
Swadeshi Samaj
Tagore's Conception
Tagore's Concern
Tagore's Notion
Tagore's Philosophy
Tagore's View
Tagore’s Conception
Tagore’s Notion
Tagore’s View
Visva Bharati
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754630364
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Nobel Prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - 'the Indian Goethe', as Albert Schweitzer called him - was not only the foremost poet and playwright of modern India, but one of its most profound and influential thinkers. Kalyan Sen Gupta's book is the first comprehensive introduction to Tagore's philosophical, socio-political and religious thinking. Drawing on Rabindranath's poetry as well as his essays, and against the background theme of his deep sensitivity to the holistic character of human life and the natural world, Sen Gupta explores the wide range of Tagore's thought. His idea of spirituality, his reflections on the significance of death, his educational innovations and his relationship to his great contemporary, Gandhi, are among the topics that Sen Gupta discusses - as are Tagore's views on marriage, his distinctive understanding of Hinduism, and his prescient concerns for the natural environment. The author does not disguise the tensions to be found in Tagore's writings, but endorses the great poet's own conviction that these are tensions resolvable at the level of a creative life, if not at that of abstract thought.
Kalyan Sen Gupta is Professor of Philosophy at Jadavpur University, India.
