The Idea of Surplus: Tagore and contemporary human sciences

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
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
Index