Situating Sri Aurobindo: A Reader - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198092121 ISBN 13: 9780198092124

Casa editrice: OUP India, 2013

Riassunto

Sri Aurobindo, a revolutionary and political leader, was also known to many as a yogi and spiritual guru, an outstanding poet, literary critic, political and social theorist, philosopher, and spiritual thinker. Divided into four thematic sections-Poetry and Criticism, Political and Social Thought, Philosophical Thought, and Spiritual Thought-this volume corresponds roughly to the four main phases of his adult life. The essays written by prominent scholars across disciplines, use biographical and historical contextualization; cultural, social and political analysis; and critical evaluation to illuminate Aurobindo's works and contribution. Convinced that his writings are of more than historical interest, they show how men and women of the twenty-first century can use them to increase their understanding of contemporary literature, social science, philosophy and spirituality, and also, perhaps, to write better poems, design better societies, find better answers to the great questions of life, and pursue their spiritual goals in a more fulfilling way. This book looks beyond Aurobindo's textual sources to his vision of the future.

This book will interest scholars and students of Indian philosophy, religion, history, literature as well as those interested in prominent Indian thinkers of the twentieth century.

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L'autore:

Peter Heehs is an independent scholar living in Pondicherry.

Contenuti:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section I: Poetry and Criticism; Editorial Note
• 1: Sri Aurobindo as a Poet: A Reassessment by K.D. Verma
• 2: The Everlasting Yes: Savitri the Epic of Affirmation by Richard Hartz
• 3: The Future Poetry by Kathleen Raine
• 4: Poetic Influences on the Development of Aurobindo's Spiritual and Nationalistic Convictions by Edward T. Ulrich
• Section II: Political and Social Thought; Editorial Note
• 5: The Transfiguration of Duty in Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita by Andrew Sartori
• 6: The Spirit and Form of an Ethical Polity: A Meditation on Aurobindo's Thought by Sugata Bose
• 7: Retrieving 'Other' Visions of the Future: Sri Aurobindo and the Ideal of Human Unity by B.S. Chimni
• 8: Sri Aurobindo on the Ideal Social Order by J.N. Mohanty
• Section III: Philosophical Thought; Editorial Note
• 9: The Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo by Haridas Chaudhuri
• 10: Sri Aurobindo and Hegel on the Involution-evolution of Absolute Spirit by Steve Odin
• 11: Bringing Brahman Down to Earth by Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield
• 12: Ethical Skepticism in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo by Stephen Phillips
• Section IV: Spiritual Thought; Editorial Note
• 13: Colonial and Post-Colonial Elaborations of Avataric Evolutionism by C. Mackenzie Brow
• 14: Tantra and ??ktism in the Spirituality of Aurobindo Ghose by Michael Stoeber
• 15: The Experiential Basis of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga by Robert McDermott
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0198092121
• ISBN 13: 9780198092124
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 376
• Redattore: Heehs Peter