Philosoposies & Ideologies

Romanticism,

  • a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment
  • criticized the glorification of reason and science 
  • focused instead on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings
  • effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common cultural past, as the basis of a nation. 
  • culture was to be discovered among the common people 
  • through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the nation.
  • In India 
    • Aurobindo, through his poetry and philosophical treatise, ‘The Life Divine’, the prospect of the ultimate revelation of divinity in everything.
    • Tagore’s quest for beauty was a spiritual quest, which attained fruition in the final realization that service to humanity was the best form of contact with God
      • unknown mystique, is beautiful because it shines through the known; and it is only in the unknown that we have perpetual freedom
      • novels, short stories, essays and dramas

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