书目名称 | The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth | 编辑 | Bindu Puri | 视频video | | 概述 | The only monograph on the Tagore-Gandhi debate.Provides a philosophical re-interpretation of Tagore’s positions on nationalism and cosmopolitanism.Gives new insights on Gandhi‘s central moral and poli | 丛书名称 | Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---.satyagraha., non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi’s mantra connecting “.swaraj.” and “.charkha.”. The author tracks the development of this dialogue and argues that the debate was about more fundamental issues, such as the nature of truth and .swaraj./freedom and the possibilities of untruth that Tagore saw in Gandhi’s movements for truth and freedom. Puri shows that the differences between the two men’s perspectives came from differently negotiated relationships to (and understandings of) tradition and modernity. Tagore was part of the Bengal renaissance and powerfully influenced by the idea that the Enlightenment consisted in the freedom of the individual to reason for herself. Gandhi, on the other hand, remained close to the Indian philosophical tradition which linked individual freedom to moral progress. Puri points out that Tagore cannot, however, be unreflectively assimilated to the Enlightenment project of Western modernity, for he came | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | Gandhi Tagore and modernity; Gandhi Tagore debate; Gandhi Tagore truth; Satyagraha; Swarajya notion of f | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2116-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-81-322-2848-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-81-322-2116-6Series ISSN 2211-1107 Series E-ISSN 2211-1115 | issn_series | 2211-1107 | copyright | Springer India 2015 |
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