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https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/1.15.lc.5
Bridging the Nationalism-Cosmopolitanism Divide: A Critical Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World
Tanushree Mitra
Arindam Modak
Sutanuka Banerjee
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This paper explores how Eurocentric ideas of nationalism and cosmopolitanism differ from Indian thinker and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore’s views and in what ways the intersection between nationalism and cosmopolitanism takes place in his novel The Home and the World (1919), originally published as Ghare-Baire in 1916. The novel will be analyzed mainly through Kai Nielsen’s philosophy of cosmopolitan nationalism (1999) and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s concept of rooted cosmopolitanism (2005). Tagore yearned for the conglomeration of different cultures and despised narrow perspectives on nationalism as constricted by geographical boundaries. As per his humanitarian worldview, he prioritized cosmopolitanism as his forte. The novel does not propose any conflict between ʻthe homeʼ and ʻthe worldʼ; rather, it suggests a state in which the home and the world would be negotiated to form a harmonious whole. In the Swadeshi period (1905-1911), when the future of Indian self-rule was being mulled over, Tagore began to renounce aggressive nationalism and envisioned India as a land of all communities. The novel’s depicted vision of cosmopolitan nationalism received critical appreciation globally after the English translation of the original Bengali text became available. Here, Tagore called for a transnational understanding of empathy and fellow feeling in which humanity would thrive beyond fishy earthly gains.
Ključne riječi
cosmopolitanism, nationalism, humanity, Rabindranath Tagore, Home, World.
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325644
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2024.
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