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This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory, Ghosh explores Tagore’s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature through what he calls the ‘plastic principle’. This deconstructs Tagore’s thinking on ‘sahitya’, ecosophy, historicity and philosophy of history, and aesthetic education and the notion of the political. Not a standard intellectual biography or historical study, this book radicalizes how we think and interpret Tagore to arrive at what Ghosh calls Plastic Tagore. The book, thus, thinks after yesterday.
This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory, Ghosh explores Tagore’s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature through what he calls the ‘plastic principle’. This deconstructs Tagore’s thinking on ‘sahitya’, ecosophy, historicity and philosophy of history, and aesthetic education and the notion of the political. Not a standard intellectual biography or historical study, this book radicalizes how we think and interpret Tagore to arrive at what Ghosh calls Plastic Tagore. The book, thus, thinks after yesterday.
This chapter conceptualizes the radical idea of ‘plastic kavi’ in relation to Tagore and his thoughts. A plastic kavi exists in the singularities of plastic moments where the flashpoints in thinking and formation are explosions that construct forms, develop their points of ignition from forms that are difficult to destroy, and initiate differentiations in critical thinking and aesthetic-ethical experiences. The chapter taps into the possibilities of Tagore to be other than what he is considered to be and what he thought he possibly could be. Plastic Tagore is the love for a Tagore who has always been restive, tensional, withdrawn, and recluse—a creative surplus that meant more but communicated less, achieved less in meaning but produced possibilities of agonistic life worlds.
This chapter introduces the idea of ‘plastic pedagogy’ through a completely new reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s educational philosophy. As a continuation of Ghosh’s work in plastic humanities, this chapter exemplifies plastic pedagogy by identifying two plastic moments: one in Tagore’s delicately dynamic understanding of eco-corporeal pedagogy, and the second in his ideas of counter-institutionality as revealed through the establishment of an international university called Visva Bharati. The arguments entangle plastic and flashpoint pedagogy to enunciate the power and potency of plastic thinking in Tagore’s ideas on education. Demonstrated in two instances here, first, as a kind of eco-pedagogy linking bird, skin, and sky (flashpoint 1), and second, as the making of an unconventional university, a counter-institution where standardization and a priori templates are not the driving force (flashpoint 2), the chapter brings us into a fresh terrain of what Ghosh calls “plastic pedagogy”.
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