Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Martin Kämpchen
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Foreign Teachers ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Core

Both Rabindranath Tagore and Paul and Edith Geheeb were deeply committed educators. Their respective schools in India and Germany (and later Switzerland) were at the core of their creative lives. These schools helped to shape the image and the international influence of their founders. Due to Tagore’s global contacts after he won the Nobel Prize in 1913, many foreign teachers offered their services in Santiniketan. In Paul Geheeb’s case, too, Indian persons came to teach Indian philosophy or just to participate in the school’s activities. Indian influence on the students’ lives has been notable. I have been visiting the Ecole d’Humanité often for over two decades. I met Paul Geheeb’s successor, Armin Lüthi, who allowed me to use the Ecole’s Archive. I sent a trained artist from a tribal village near Santiniketan to the Ecole to teach; he was twice invited to return. Thus the link between the Ecole and Santiniketan could be revived.

scholarly journals Tagore and Naipaul on Indian and European Civilisations: Patriotic and Biassed Views Changed their Perspectives.

IJOHMN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Aju Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Core ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean

V. S. Naipaul was writer of Indian origin writer settled in Great Britain and Rabindranath Tagore was Bengali writer born and brought up in India. Both were Nobel Laureates in Literature. Based on their overall behavior and treatment with the colonized people, Tagore a patriot to the core, saw and judged the foreign colonisers from his Indian patriotic point of view. He realised how and why they sucked India for their own benefit to the utter neglect of Indians. But Naipaul’s ancestors migrated perhaps under compulsion to the Caribbean islands where Naipaul was born (Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobagos). He settled in England and stayed put there for the major part of his life. Compared to his background Britain was new found paradise for him. Ambitious, he studied English and was imbued in their culture. He wrote as if Britain was more than his birth land. He was awarded Nobel Prize as a British, a European. From his perspective he was not only indebted but deeply moved to love that country and continent. His name and fame spread from there. India had nothing to do about it except his Indian origin background taking the clue from his ancestors. He had some tilt towards India nothing of it remained when India was compared to Britan or Europe. He was obliged to see the world through their spectacles. His ideas and favour for Britain and Europe was generated by his position and interest in life. Judged Neutrally it was a biased view.

Mei Wan Mei Liao

Songings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Anhuai Yu
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore

This is the Chinese translation for the first poem of Gitanjali, a collection of poems, written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Tagore, Rabindranath (1886–1941)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. Minor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Active Life

In the flurry of intellectual activity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore became one of the best-known playwrights, poets, novelists, educators and philosophers, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. His thought drew on the English Romantics as well as Sanskrit and Bengali writers and movements. Tagore was not a systematic philosopher. He termed his position ‘a poet’s religion’ which valued imagination above reason. He moved between the personal warmth of human relationships to a theistic Divine and belief in an Absolute as a unifying principle. He advocated a thoughtful but active life, criticizing asceticism and ritualism.

Rabindranath Tagore—“The Greatest of The Bāuls of Bengal”

1959 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Dimock
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore

When Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 andwas thereby rocketed into international prominence, the literary and theological worlds were afflicted with a rash of speculation as to whether or not his ideas were basically Christian. “The God of Gitanjali is no impersonal, imperturbable absolute of Hindu philosophy, but…whether He be explicitly Christ or not, He is at least a Christ-like God, and the experience of His suppliant and lover is one with the deepest core of all Christian experience.” “The ideas of Rabindranath, like those of so many thinkers of modern India, have often been quite wrongly assigned to Indian sources.” “In Rabindranath we get a glimpse of what the Christianity of India will be like….”

scholarly journals Play of the Subconscious: on the Saṃskāras and Vāsanās in Classical Yoga Psychology

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychological System ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Psychological Concepts

The present study attempts to deepen the existing scholarly understanding of the various conceptual issues related to the problem of unconscious in Indian philosophy. An attempt is made to determine and classify the semantic content of a selected number of psychological concepts, notably saṃskãras and vāsanās, as it is found in the philosophical and religious texts of Patañjali’s Yoga sūtra and the basic commentarial literature thereon. Seven main features, or functions, of these concepts in Yoga tradition are distinguished. Finally, some significant differences between Yoga psychology and Western psycho-analysis regarding the understanding of the nature of the subconscious are mentioned. The most important point of similarity is that according to both Yoga and psychoanalysis the subconscious is regarded as the determining factor in conscious life. Belonging to the core of the Indian psychological system, the conception of saṃskãras and vāsanās in a way foreshadows the modem notion of the subconscious / unconscious / preconscious.

scholarly journals ECO-ETHICAL VIEWS OF TAGORE AND AMARTYA SEN

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Ratan Lal Basu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Western World ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
The World ◽  
Nobel Laureates

Desde que se otorgó el Premio Nobel de Economía a Amartya Sen, se han hecho muchos esfuerzos por destacar el pasado de Sen Shantiniketan y la afinidad de su visión mundial con la de Rabindranath Tagore. Desafortunadamente, es probable que un análisis más profundo revele que los puntos de vista de Amartya Sen -basados en el mundo occidental- sean diametralmente opuestos a los de Tagore -basado en la antigua perspectiva india mundial-, particularmente en lo que respecta al desarrollo sostenible y la vida ética humana. Este artículo se esfuerza por resaltar los aspectos contrastantes de las visiones del mundo de dos galardonados con el Premio Nobel de Bengala.AbstractEver since the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Amartya Sen, there has been much endeavour to highlight Sen’s Shantiniketan background and affinity of his world outlook with that of Rabindranath Tagore. Unfortunately, a deeper analysis is likely to reveal that Amartya Sen’s views (based on western world-outlook) are diametrically opposed to that of Tagore (based on ancient Indian world-outlook), particularly as regards sustainable development and eco-ethical human living. This article endeavours to highlight these contrasting aspects of the world-outlooks of two Bengali Nobel Laureates.

scholarly journals Love and Spirituality in Anita Desai’s ‘Cry, the Peacock’ and Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Breezy April’

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Arijit Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
The West ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Women Novelists ◽  
Other Hand

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first non-European and the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was awarded the prize for Gitanjali. Tagore was a multi-faceted personality who not only composed poems, verses, short stories, novels etc but also sketched and painted with equal brilliance. As a flag-bearer, he presented the best of India to the West and vice-versa. In Breezy April, Tagore combines romanticism with spiritualism. On the other hand, Anita Desai (born-1937) is the youngest among the women novelists of eminence in India. The spiritual aspect of human life is at the centre of attention in her works. Women protagonists of fragile exterior and strong interior take the lead in Anita Desai’s works of fiction. Spirituality is an integral part of most of her works. In her first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), Desai minutely depicts both love as well as deep spiritual intricacies.

scholarly journals Elfriede Jelinek y la belleza de las princesas a través del espejo = Elfriede Jelinek and the beauty of princesses through the mirror

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Verónica Ripoll León
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Ingeborg Bachmann ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
The Core ◽  
Elfriede Jelinek ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Resumen. La autora Elfriede Jelinek –ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2004– es una incansable creadora de personajes estereotipados. Mediante el empleo de la ironía, Jelinek utiliza a los protagonistas de sus obras para reflexionar de manera crítica sobre el conjunto de acciones y comportamientos sociales que forman parte de las expectativas de lo que el género femenino y masculino deben representar dentro de una sociedad. Un año antes de la mención del Nobel, Jelinek publicaba un conjunto de textos dramáticos reunidos bajo el título La muerte y la doncella I-V. Dramas de princesas (Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V. Prinzessinendramen, 2003). En esta obra, la escritora austríaca reescribía dos de los cuentos de princesas –Blancanieves y La Bella Durmiente– y una leyenda –Rosamunda–, que forman parte de la tradición literaria occidental, para reinventar después la historia de otras mujeres reales del panorama histórico y cultural como son Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis y las escritoras Sylvia Plath e Ingeborg Bachmann. El objetivo del presente estudio es atender al problema que supone en estos Dramas de princesas la existencia de unos cánones de belleza cuando se pretende construir la imagen y la identidad de unas mujeres que han quedado sometidas a la supremacía de poder que la sociedad otorga al varón. Para ello, y siguiendo la senda del psicoanálisis, se prestará especial atención al elemento del espejo, entendido como un instrumento que brinda o niega el reconocimiento a estas princesasPalabras clave: Elfriede Jelinek, teatro posdramático, cuentos de hadas, psicoanálisis, espejo.Abstract. Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Literature Nobel Prize in 2004, is a tireless creator of stereotyped characters. Through the application of irony, the protagonists of her works are used with the intention of exciting critical thought about the social roles and actions expected to be played by women and men within a society. A year before being awarded the Nobel Prize, Jelinek released a body of plays under the title of Death and the Maiden I-V. Princess Plays (Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V. Prinzessinendramen, 2003). In this work, the Austrian writer rewrote two of the most famous fairytales featuring princesses, such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, as well as a legend played by Rosamunde. These tales are part of the core of Western literary tradition. In using them, she reinvents the story of other real characters and women from our historic and cultural panorama: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or writers like Sylvia Plath and Ingeborg Bachmann. The main goal of the present paper is to analyse the problem posed by the existence of a beauty canon in these Princess Plays insofar as the construction and depiction of female identity is subdued by the control and supremacy of a patriarchal society. To do so, and following a psychoanalytical approach, the theme of the mirror will be the main focus as an instrument which brings or hinders the acknowledgement of these princesses.Keywords: Elfriede Jelinek, postdramatic theatre, fairytales, psychoanalysis, mirror.

Is Economics Performative? Option Theory and the Construction of Derivatives Markets

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Financial Derivatives ◽  
High Status ◽  
Large Array ◽  
External Reality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mathematical Analyses ◽  
Option Theory ◽  
Derivatives Markets

The thesis that economics is “performative” (Callon 1998) has provoked much interest but also some puzzlement and not a little confusion. The purpose of this article is to examine from the viewpoint of performativity one of the most successful areas of modern economics, the theory of options, and in so doing hopefully to clarify some of the issues at stake. To claim that economics is performative is to argue that it does things, rather than simply describing (with greater or lesser degrees of accuracy) an external reality that is not affected by economics. But what does economics do, and what are the effects of it doing what it does?That the theory of options is an appropriate place around which to look for performativity is suggested by two roughly concurrent developments. Since the 1950s, the academic study of finance has been transformed from a low-status, primarily descriptive activity to a high-status, analytical, mathematical, Nobel-prize-winning enterprise. At the core of that enterprise is a theoretical account of options dating from the start of the 1970s. Around option theory there has developed a large array of sophisticated mathematical analyses of financial derivatives. (A “derivative” is a contract or security, such as an option, the value of which depends upon the price of another asset or upon the level of an index or interest rate.)

Rabindranath Tagore – poszukiwanie prawdy i piękna w teorii i w Szkole Poety

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4 (246)) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Zofia Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Of Life

The article is based on the author’s personal and long-year experience gathered while observing and living the life in India. The text addresses the problems and struggles of elites of a society on the crossroads of various civilisations. In addition, it touches upon often contradictory visions of the world and social order, which does not prevent any of them from finding space to perfect specific aspects of spiritual life. In India, we can see very clearly how two planes and two levels of Indian culture – the philosophy of life and the art of life – cross and, at the same time, blend with each other. The most general aspect of these considerations results from the common essence that permeates Indian culture and skills of co-existence. Its contributions to global culture are: a unique view, cognition and evaluation of the world. It also added a more profound interest in mankind than in other cultures, supported by the intellectual effort to explore what conditions its being, and what can decondition that being. As a result of that interest, deepened throughout dozens of centuries, the Indian philosophy proposes a notion of the human being that is wider than in the European tradition. Moreover, it also advances methods and techniques of upbringing of the young generation so that it would manifest a conscious attitude to the tradition and art of life in the broadest meaning of the word, and be able to build a balance between the self – the microworld – and the macroworld in a peaceful and disciplined manner.

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