title: The problem of the nation and nationalism in the social-philosophical thought of Rabindranath Tagore
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metadata.value: Skorokhodova, Tatiana G.
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metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:22:57Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:22:57Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Skorokhodova T. G. The problem of the nation and nationalism in the social-philosophical thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, pp. 464–478.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.308
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33392
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metadata.value: Rabindranath Tagore’s lectures Nationalism (1916) were an early attempt to interpret and
  analyze the phenomenon from the social-philosophical point of view. In non-Western social
  thought it was one of first approaches to comprehend nationalism in its fullness and complexity
  of content with the complex of its objective consequences. Based on hermeneutical methods
  and phenomenological approach, the author offers a reconstruction of Tagore’s theoretical
  interpretation of nationalism in a broad social context from India to the East and the
  West. The interpretation is based on Tagore’s understanding of the nation as a mechanical organization
  for economic and political purposes, born in the “political civilization” of Europe.
  According to him, the nation is the problem for all societies both Western and non-Western,
  because it destructs its freedom, morality and humanity, and generates conflicts, aggression,
  violence and war. Nationalism is presented as “perfect organization of power” for domination
  over other peoples, as well as over their own society. Both constructs are exported to
  non-Western peoples who are not nations, and consequently create difficult problems in their
  societies. For Eastern peoples both ways of responding to Western nationalism’s challenge
  are dangerous in Tagore’s opinion. The first is nation-building by the state according to the
  Western model which turns into statism and militarism (the example of Japan). The second response is an attempt to solve social problems through belief in the achievement of political
  independence (the example of India). Essentially, Tagore had anticipated the modernist (constructivist)
  approach to the analysis of nationalism as an artificial and purposeful mechanism
  for achieving political goals, primarily in regard to the state, and pointed to the borrowed
  nature of nationalism in non-Western societies.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rabindranath Tagore’s social philosophy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the West
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Non-Western societies
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: critics of nationalist policy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: statism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: India
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Japan
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metadata.value: The problem of the nation and nationalism in the social-philosophical thought of Rabindranath Tagore
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