Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171676758
Description
This volume contains some of Tagore's occasional essays and lectures delivered abroad, and reveal his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion and of 'religion of the poet'.
Creative Unity (1922) contains some of Tagore's occasional essays and lectures delivered abroad. Published after his third visit to America (1920-21), these essays reveal his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion and of 'the religion of the poet.' Their main thesis is that the Infinite. One is mysteriously united with the Self. This One in the Self is creative. Tagore thinks by uniting the spirituality of the East with the science of the West the great Spirituality of man will be achieved. The book also has three essays enumerating his ideas on Nationalism, Women and Education.
Contents
Introduction
The Poet's Religion
The Creative Ideal
The Religion of the Forest
An Indian Folk Religion
East and West
The Modern Age
The Spirit of Freedom
The Nation
Women and Home
An Eastern University