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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. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
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. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity.
