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A renaissance figure and marvel that Rabindranath Tagore has been, an analytical predilection of philosophy is hardly enough for comprehending his phenomenal creativity and expression of the highest values of will and feeling. Often the question whether Tagore is a philosopher is quite idle, as idle as whether Nietzsche is a philosopher, or the author of Philosophical Investigations is a philosopher. It is easier to deride the high and naked peaks of synoptic ...
In Beauty, Art and Man the author seeks to explore the answers given to the question: why is art possible? by such thinkers as Rabindranath Tagore, A.K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo and as diverse as K.C. Bhattacharya, Kalidas Bhattacharya and N.V. Banerjee. All of them have proposed distinct anthropologies in answering the question. Their notions of art have varied according to their human ontologies. The first three thinkers are brought into a framework of ...