Tagore’s Dark Vision of Humanity
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| Title | Tagore’s Dark Vision of Humanity |
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| Abstract | Abstract Tagore struggled against his dark vision of humanity to assert that the earth was a place of hierophanies and human life had a divine purpose. He failed. He called, with skepticism, for peace, equality and the restoration of earth’s loveliness: “I know I am crying in the wilderness, when I raise my voice of warning…” In a war-haunted and hungry Europe and Asia, he was confronted by a strange, cruel, and obstinately tribal world with its “legacy of ruin.” Though he asserted till his death in 1940 that he could never “commit the grievous sin of losing faith in man,” he could not turn away from “the crumbling ruins of … civilization….” Keywords: Rabindranath Tagore, skepticism, dark-vision, civilization, beauty, Tolstoy Izvleček Tagore se je boril proti svoji temni viziji človeštva, da bi potrdil, da je zemlja božanski kraj in človeško življenje božanski namen. Ni mu uspelo. S skepticizmom je pozival k miru, enakosti in obnavljanju miline zemlje: »Vem, da jočem v puščavi, ko sem dvignil glas opozorila ...«. Ob vojnah in lakoti, v takratni Evropi in Aziji se je soočal z odtujenim, krutim in omejenim svetom in njegovo »zapuščino propada«. Čeprav je do smrti leta 1940 trdil, da nikoli ne bi »storil bridkega greha in izgubil vero v človeka«, se ni mogel odvrniti od »razbitih ruševin ... civilizacije ...«. Ključne besede: Rabindranath Tagore, skepticizem, vizija temnega, civilizacija, lepota, Tolstoj |
| Publisher | jubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana/Znanstvena založba FF |
| Date | 2013-04-30 |
| Source | Azijske študije Vol 1, No 1: The Indian Subcontinent: Between Tradition and Modernity |