150. Tagore on Nationalism in the West - a warning to today's world from 1917

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Jeff Rich

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150. Tagore on Nationalism in the West - a warning to today's world from 1917

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150. Tagore on Nationalism in the West - a warning to today's world from 1917

Rabindranath Tagore was a great Bengali and Indian writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1913, just before the world went to war. In 1917, in the depth of World War One he wrote his essay, "Nationalism in the West". I read the full essay, and introduce you to the reasons Tagore why this essay connects to debates about nationalism, "globalism", and the possibility for peaceful cooperation between peoples of many nations.

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