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Edgar Allan Poe defined Poetry as “the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” In other words, one can say that any poetry writer is a seeker of Beauty. Writing poems, for the joy of poetry, is not necessarily being a poet. “What is a poet?”, asked the great Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart”, he replied, “but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.” In this volume of poems, Ramin Jahanbegloo, the Iranian-Canadian philosopher and writer, shares his anguish of the world and his search for truth and beauty with the reader. In this act of writing poems, he crosses the uneasy boundary between poetry and philosophy. The more he deepens the reach of poetry, the more he comes closer to the essence of philosophy. If the central task of philosophy is to teach us how to become who we are, then poetry is the highest form of philosophizing. Writing poems is a mode of listening to one’s inner voice. This raises the question: to what extent poetry is an act of rebellion against the reality of the world? Undoubtedly, poetry is a dangerous mode of thinking. Making love to the words is unacceptable to a world like ours which is suffering from mediocrity and conformism. “Poems are en route,” Celan writes, “they are headed toward”. This is what Jahanbegloo remind us in his poem “Roads”. “The roads we have chosen”, he writes, “take us nowhere.” In the essence of poetry, there is an aspiration towards something like a road which is unconquerable. This is the essence of beauty. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramin Jahanbegloo is a political philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University- Delhi-India. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789388409834
  • Publisher: Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd
  • Binding: Perfect
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9388409833
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2020
  • Edition: 1
  • No of Pages: 88


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