Satya Sinha - 2015 - No preview - More editions
This is the first book which compares the philosophical views of Tagore and Gandhi, who were the most important thinkers of Modern India.
Tagore raised four serious concerns—uncritical self-assurance about the truth of particular moral convictions, demand for unquestioned individual obedience to moral rules, the ascetic denial of ordinary life and possibilities of self-mortification ...
Abstract The substantial differences between Tagore and Gandhi came from their differently negotiated relationships to tradition and modernity. However, they shared a sense of wonder in living life in an enchanted cosmos. Gandhi saw ...
It gives me great pleasure to write a few words by way of a Foreword to this significant contribution to the vast literature on Mahatma Gandhi and his friend and adversary in debate, Rabindranath Tagore. I consider this work as a significant ...
Gandhi's debate with Tagore poses a philosophical challenge to this interpretation. For that debate was about the truth of Gandhi's moral “principles” and Tagore's insistence on the individual's freedom to reject them. This chapter argues that ...
significant philosophical difference between Kant and Tagore. Tagore accorded a priority to the individual's freedom to understand and respond to reasons rather than to rationality as a differentiating feature of a human being qua human being ...
Raminder Kaur, Parul Dave-Mukherji - 2015 - Preview - More editions
Of. Mockery. and. Mimicking: Gaganendranath. Tagore's. Critique. of. Henri. Bergson's. Laughter. (1911). Emilia Terracciano Sometimes this literature of just- before-the-battle is dominated by humour and allegory; but often too it is symptomatic ...
her essay “Cosmopolitan Patriots,” Martha Nussbaum analyzes RabindranathTagore's novel The Home and the World as a dramatization of what can be wrong with the idea of patriotism. The novel shifts among three third-person- limited ...
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