Introducing a Surplus

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Notes

¹ See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (trans. J.C. Meredith) (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1911), Part I, section 59.

² Rabindranath Tagore, ‘What is Art?’, in Personality (London: Macmillan & Co., 1945), p.17.

³ Ibid., p.8.

⁴ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Universal Literature’, in Angel of Surplus (ed. Sisir Kumar Ghose) (Calcutta: Visva Bharati, 1978), p.101.

⁵ Tagore, ‘What is Art?’, p.29.

⁶ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The World of Personality’, in Personality (London: Macmillan & Co., 1945), p.69.

⁷ See Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Music Maker’, in The Religion of Man (London: George Allen & Unwin Limited, 1958), pp.127–8.

⁸ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Second Birth’, in Personality (London: Macmillan & Co., 1945), pp.83–4.

⁹ Amiya Chakravarty (ed.), ‘The Religion of an Artist’, A Tagore Reader (New York: Macmillan, 1961), p.234.

¹⁰ Ibid., pp.234–5.

¹¹ Gilles Deleuze uses the topology of ‘And’ to bring about the dialectic of ‘difference’ and ‘repetition’ related to the ever-mounting hermeneutic possibilities. The politics and aesthetics of ‘plus’ are intriguingly pertinent here.

¹² Tagore, ‘The World of Personality’, p.60.

¹³ Himangshu Bhushan Mukherjee, Education for Fulness (London: Asia Publishing House, 1962), p.98, italics added.

¹⁴ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘An Eastern University’, in Creative Unity (London: Macmillan and Co., 1922), p.190.

¹⁵ For more on these post-modern and Derridean understandings see my forthcoming book on Tagore and Education (2012).

¹⁶ Tagore, ‘An Eastern University’, p.179.