PhilosophyBook · 1917
Nationalism
Rabindranath Tagore
Three wartime lectures arguing that the nation is an organisation of politics and commerce that eats the society beneath it. Unpopular in India when he gave them.
Why you should read this
Collects lectures Tagore delivered in Japan and the United States arguing that the modern nation-state subordinates human welfare to mechanical, competitive power politics. Written by a non-Western critic near the height of European imperialism, so it reads differently than most nationalism scholarship from the same period.
- Field
- Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1917
- Themes
- Eastern PhilosophyPhilosophy
