Открытая лекция лауреата премии Ab Imperio Award Чой Чаттерджи "Лев Толстой и Рабиндранат Тагор: принципы глобального мышления"
В четверг, 13 сентября 2018 года в 18:30 с открытой лекцией «Leo Tolstoy and Rabindranath Tagore: Principles of Global Thinking» выступит профессор Калифорнийского университета, лауреат премии Ab Imperio Award 2018 Чой Чаттерджи.
Leo Tolstoy and Rabindranath Tagore’s political ideas are considered to be embarrassing episodes that distract us from their otherwise brilliant literary careers. But Tolstoy and Tagore’s life practices and unorthodox approach to nationalism, imperialism, and modernity are not simply marks of their eccentricity. To the contrary, their counter-modern ideas have enormous emancipatory potential in the face of accelerating climate change, intensifying national and racial competition, and the dilemma of modern selfhood that defines itself only through accumulation and violence.
The novelist and the poet argued that the world needed a new model of elite behavior, or what I call intentional selflessness. Intentional selflessness links the needs of the self, the community, and ecology in a seamless continuum, and expands our contemporary understanding of selfhood. Finally, their powerful vision of a shared humanity is based on an intimate and profound understanding of the natural world. Tolstoy and Tagore’s principles of global thinking have the power to move us beyond contemporary debates between the Right and the Left, economic development and environmentalism, and the nation and the world.
Место проведения: НИУ ВШЭ – Санкт-Петербург, ул. Союза Печатников 16, ауд. 309
Рабочий язык: английский
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Профессор Чой Чаттерджи с 1994 г. преподает российскую и советскую историю в Калифорнийском университете. Среди ее последних публикаций: Russia in the Long Twentieth Century. Contested Voices, Memories, and Perspectives (with Lisa Kirschenbaum and Deborah Fields) (Routledge, 2016); Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (co-edited with David Ransel, Mary Cavender and Karen Petrone) (Indiana University Press, 2015); The Russian Experience: Americans Encountering the Enigma, 1890 to the Present (co-edited with Beth Holmgren) (Routledge Press, 2012); Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). В настоящее время Чаттерджи заканчивает работу над книгой Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2018). В 2014 году преподавательская работа профессора Чаттерджи была отмечена престижной наградой Калифорнийского университета (Outstanding Professor Award), а в 2018 г. она стала одним из первых лауреатов недавно учрежденной премии Ab Imperio Award.