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Tagore, Einstein and the Nature of Reality: Literary and Philosophical Reflections de Partha Ghose

Tagore, Einstein and the Nature of Reality: Literary and Philosophical Reflections

Autor Partha Ghose
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This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein.



The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. Tagore (1861-1941) met Einstein (1879-1955) at the latter's house in Kaputh, Germany on 14 July 1930 and had a long conversation on this issue. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity, or the world is a reality independent of the human factor. Einstein believed that reality is independent of the mind and the human factor. On the other hand, Tagore adopted the opposite view. Nevertheless, both Einstein and Tagore claimed to be realists -- their conceptions of reality were obviously fundamentally different. Where does the difference lie? Can it be harmonized at a deeper level?



This volume brings together for the first time a gamut of views on this subject from eminent scholars. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history and political studies, as also to those interested in Tagore.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367731335
ISBN-10: 0367731339
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction. Preamble: A Man-Centric View: Poet and Scientist Bimal Krishna Matilal 1. Poetic Reality Nirmalangshu Mukherji 2. Too Big a Bang for Language: Tagore’s Critique Reloaded Probal Dasgupta 3. Tagore’s Truth Amiya Dev 4. Seeing things: Tagore’s Sense of the Real Supriya Chaudhuri 5. Science and the World of Personality Shefali Moitra 6. Positing the Human in the Human Sciences Sourin Bhattacharya 7. Why the Moth Cannot be a Poet Saranindranath Tagore 8. Tagore-Wittgenstein Interface: The Poet’s Activism and Virtue Ethics Sitansu Sekhar Chakravarti 9. Two Conceptions of Reality: Tagore and Einstein Syed Sayeed 10. Reality and Intelligibility Bijoy Boruah 11. The Creative Mind: A Mirror or a Component of Reality? Ashish Lahiri

Notă biografică

Partha Ghose is a theoretical physicist and Honorary Scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, India. He retired as Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata in 1999. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India; the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; and former Chairman of the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. He specializes in the foundations of quantum mechanics and unified theories. He was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for the popularization of science by the Indian National Science Academy. His exposition of Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy and music has found expression in several scholarly papers. His publications include the book Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground (1999).

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This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein.

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. Tagore (1861-1941) met Einstein (1879-1955) at the latter's house in Kaputh, Germany on 14 July 1930 and had a long conversation on this issue. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity, or the world is a reality independent of the human factor. Einstein believed that reality is independent of the mind and the human factor. On the other hand, Tagore adopted the opposite view. Nevertheless, both Einstein and Tagore claimed to be realists -- their conceptions of reality were obviously fundamentally different. Where does the difference lie? Can it be harmonized at a deeper level?

This volume brings together for the first time a gamut of views on this subject from eminent scholars. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history and political studies, as also to those interested in Tagore.