The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth

• Main Author: Puri, Bindu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 9
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Emigration and immigration.; Philosophy, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Migration.

This volume discusses the development of the dialogue between Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) during 1915 and 1941, about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Tagore-- Gandhi Debate: An Account of the Central Issues
• Chapter 2: Of Mantras and Unquestioned Creeds: Re-constructing Gandhi’s Moral Insights
• Chapter 3: Gandhi's Truth: Debate, Criticism, and the Possibilities of Closure in Moral Arguments
• Chapter 4: Tagore: On the possibilities of untruth and moral tyranny
• Chapter 5: Understanding Swaraj: Tagore and Gandhi
• Chapter 6: Gandhi and Tagore: Life in an Enchanted Cosmos.