Sri Aurobindo was influenced by Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 163 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages - Preview The World-Union or the World-State The ambivalence of Sri Aurobindo's political sociology is evident from the fact that while he recognises the inevitability of the centralising tendency leading to a world-state, he consistently ...

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 35 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 111 pages - Preview We find emphasis both on the organic concept of the social totality and the spiritual-cosmic character of the individual. The key political concept of Aurobindo's political philosophy is reciprocity and mutuality between the individual ...

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 82 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - 239 pages - Preview Some of Aurobindo's political reference points therefore coincided with those of the twenty-something Margaret Noble, who, during the period that he was in Cambridge, the early 1890s, was teaching in Wimbledon in the company of ...

The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The ... - Page 31 - Walter Truett Anderson - 2004 - 352 pages - Preview Like that of his contemporary, Gandhi, Aurobindo's political thinking was on a cosmic scale, in which ideas of social change mingled with ideas of spiritual transformation. He was profoundly influenced by India's religious traditions, ...

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page xvi - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - 224 pages - Preview Along with Yogi Sri Aurobindo's 'political philosophy of terrorism' as a technique to fight against British imperialism we have examined the influence of Tagore's universalism, especially manifest in his poem Gitanjali (which made him ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 144 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - 496 pages - Preview 127 This experience of the silent brahman coming at the peak of Aurobindo's political career was the most dramatic turning-point in his life. He had arrived in Baroda as a leader ofa movement that involved the lives and energies of ...

Nationalism, religion, and beyond: writings on politics, society, ... - Aurobindo Ghose, Peter Heehs - 2005 - 364 pages - This is not to say that Aurobindo's political and social writings have no contemporary value. His overviews of European and Indian history are still of considerable interest, and the lines of future development he extrapolated from his...

Principles Of Education - Page 218 - S.S. Chandra, Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2004 - 246 pages - Preview Swadeshi was the avowed principle in Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy. Each nation, according to him, has to grow and develop in tune with its peculiar Swabhav and Swadharma. This principle has been advocated by Indian thinkers ...

Modern Indian political thought - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - 640 pages - To a pure materialist, Plato and St. Augustine and Hegel sound reactionary; while to a spiritualist, Machiavelli and Hobbes appear superficial. To a believer in the powers of the spirit, Aurobindo's political philosophy has a great ...

All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - 106 pages - To turn from Fascism and Nazism to Sri Aurobindo's political ideas is to turn from the cult of intolerance and unfreedom to an intellectually rich theory of sanity, and faith in man. The ideal of human unity is to be achieved through ...

Hinduism in public and private: reform, Hindutva, gender, and ... - Antony R. H. Copley - 2003 - 303 pages - Aurobindo's political and social ideas were strongly influenced by poets of the English Romantic movement, notably Shelley and Wordsworth, by later English critics such as Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold, by European political theorists ...

Sayajirao of Baroda, the prince and the man - Fatesinhrao Gaekwad (Maharaja of Baroda) - 1989 - 397 pages - Sayajirao was perfectly aware of Aurobindo's political views and activities and, by all accounts, secretly sympathised with them. He was also aware that, to harbour a well-known extremist in his educational service was, for someone in ...

Political thought in modern India - Thomas Pantham, Kenneth L. Deutsch - 1986 - 362 pages - 4 The year 1908 became a watershed year in Aurobindo's political career. Bengal in that year was a likely site for the growing Indian spirit of repression and even terror. These clashes became highly dramatized in the Alipore Bomb ...

Glimpses of Vedantism in Sri Aurobindo's political thought - Samar Basu, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998 - 73 pages - Chapter I Appearance of a Young Politician with Deep Insight "The world needs India and needs her free. The work she has to do now is to organise life in the terms of Vedanta, and that is a work she cannot do while overshadowed by a ...

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages - He also adds an appendix to show how Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy differs from Tilak, and the views of BC Pal and CR Das. ... He also refers to the idealistic and utopian elements in Sri Aurobindo's political thought.

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 412 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages - Preview (d) Reflections on Aurobindo's Political Idealism For the realization of the sociological, political and economic programmes of the spiritualized society, a consecrated spirit of religious surrender to the divine is necessary.

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 90 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages - Preview Aurobindo's political life and nationalism Aurobindo was politically active in many ways including speaking and organizing, but he became famous through his writing. He contributed to the Yugantar, a Bengali weekly first published in ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 61 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages - Preview One analyst of Aurobindo's political activities, Jean Sherer, argues that only the modernist aspects of Aurobindo's early career are important. Her thesis is that during the Partition crisis and after, Aurobindo "encountered" the world ...

Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 152 - Preview 29 Gospel of Nationalism Nationalism is the greatest God in Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy though his nationalism extends to internationalism and ultimately to divinity. The gospel of nationalism does not mean that Sri Aurobindo ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture: Volume 58 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2005 - Every day father would try valiantly to make these junior professors understand and see Sri Aurobindo's political vision and wisdom. In the meantime the Japanese began bombing Chittagong and Cox Bazaar. At once Feni turned into a ...

Indian idea of political resistance: Aurobindo, Tilak, Gandhi, and ... - Ashok S. Chousalkar - 1990 - 131 pages - Aurobindo's political theory ] was dominated by three ideological factors (a) in India religion ' and politics were not different, they were one and the same (b) ! India did not want to become carbon copy of west; in fact, ... 

The Essential Aurobindo - Page 36 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages - Preview The spiritual method and goal of this revolution, however, included a radical political program which Sri Aurobindo later summarized as follows: There were three sides to Sri Aurobindo's political ideas and activities.

The Indian Scriptures and the Life Divine - Page 6 - Binita Pani - 1993 - 367 pages - Preview Sri Aurobindo's political life was limited to a short period of fifteen years from 1893 to 1908 of which the first ten years were mostly devoted to secret activities and the last five years were only his active period.

Political science review: Volume 2 - University of Rajasthan. Dept. of Political Science - 1963 - A detailed examination of Sri Aurobindo's political thoughts yet remains a desideratum Speaking generally there are two difficulties in appreciating Sri Aurobindo's political ideas. For one thing, to grasp his thoughts properly one ...