The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore: Harmonizing the One and Its Many - Couverture rigide

Livre 5 sur 21: Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical

Barua, Ankur

 
9781498586221: The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore: Harmonizing the One and Its Many
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1498586228 ISBN 13 : 9781498586221
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book is a thematic study of the poet-thinker Rabindranath Tagore's conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many. Tagore's writings, in Bengali and in English, on religious and social themes are held together by the leitmotif of a "harmony" which operates across several existential, religious, and social polarities - the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, and the individual and the universal. Tagore creatively appropriated materials from diverse sources such as the classical Hindu Vedantic systems, the folk piety of Bengal, and others, to configure a dialectic which shapes his writings on both religious and social themes. On the one hand, each individual is irreducibly distinct from everyone else, and, on the other hand, each individual gains their spiritual depth precisely by being placed within the dynamic matrices of an interrelated whole. Thus, we find Tagore rejecting certain monastic forms of Hindu world-renunciation and also certain ecstatic dimensions of devotional worship - the former because they efface individuality and the latter because they can generate self-absorbed styles of living. Again, Tagore is as sharply opposed to Bengali imitativeness of English modes of being in the world as he is to Bengali forms of insularity - the former because it dilutes the concrete richness of indigenous lifeforms and the latter because it confines individuals to parochial enclosures. Tagore's life-long endeavor was to configure a "third way" by rejecting both the blank homogeneity of an undifferentiated one and the particularistic insularities of a multitude without a deeper center of coherence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ankur Barua is University Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498586228
ISBN 13 
9781498586221
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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