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Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore

A Transcultural Philosophy of Education

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Authors:
  1. Ranjan Ghosh

    1. Department of English, University of North Bengal , Siliguri, India

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  • Offers a novel and radical rethinking of the prominent Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore
  • Provides a rigorous critique of Tagore's thoughts, comparing his writing to those of other thinkers across times, countries and cultures
  • Calls for a greater sensitivity to other languages, cultures and traditions in the fields of politics and philosophy of education

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and Transculturalism (PSET)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. In and Out of Time: The Hungry Artist

    • Ranjan Ghosh
    Pages 1-40

  3. No Schoolmaster: Aesthetic Education and Paedosophy

    • Ranjan Ghosh
    Pages 41-133

  4. The Politics of Counter: Critical Education and the Encounters with Difference

    • Ranjan Ghosh
    Pages 135-191

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-214
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About this book

This book provides a radical rethinking of the prominent Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore, exploring how his philosophy of education relates to the ideas of Western theorists such as Kant, Plato and Aristotle. Tagore's thoughts on pedagogy, university and formal education are subjected to a fascinating critique within Ghosh's transcultural framework, referencing a wide range of thinkers across varying time periods, places, and cultures, and developing a greater sensitivity to other traditions, languages, and forms of thinking and writing. The book changes the way we have so far thought about the educationist Tagore, and will be of interest to scholars and specialists of literature, Indian history, and philosophy of education. It is political, deeply philosophical and has a transcultural take on our understanding of a variety of issues relating to Tagore and to philosophy of education in general.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of North Bengal , Siliguri, India

    Ranjan Ghosh

About the author

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. His academic interests include literature, the nature of knowledge across disciplines, and the philosophy of education. He is widely published and is author of Thinking Literature Across Continents and Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet.

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