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The present chapter attempts to redraw curriculum boundaries by challenging the conventional hierarchy between the mind and the body. “Discarnation” meaning the systematic suppression and disavowal of the living body as a source of orienting, knowing, and relating to the world, a typically modern attitude, is rejected as a viable existential or educational outlook. Body and mind are deconstructed on the plane of Rhythm, a timeless movement which is shown to be the ontological matrix for both body and mind. An attempt is made to shed the knowledge fixation through the grasp of the rhythmic. Part of Tagore’s Chandalika, a dance-drama is presented here as a pedagogic effort to reengage the world of the senses and their training toward a re-awakening of the sensibilities. In this reengagement, the body teaches us attention, responsibility, and competence, all of which add up to a supreme form of caritas that can help us bridge the body-mind hiatus.
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Rabindranath Tagore, “The Parrot’s Training,” Complete Works of Tagore at www.tagoreweb.in. Note: All of Tagore’s works are in the public domain.
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Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).
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Hathayoga is a corporeal practice that orients one to the cosmic through forces latent in the body .
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Cited in Giorgio Agamben , The Man Without Content, trans. Georgia Albert (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), p. 58.
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Ibid, pp. 61–62.
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Ibid.
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Rabindranath Tagore , Complete Works.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Plato , Symposium, trans. Michael Joyce, in Plato , The Collected Dialogues, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961), 205b, p. 557.
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Tagore , Complete Works.
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Ibid.
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Ibid. Translation from the original by author.
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The feminine principle must not be equated to women. Men could not even come to be embodied if the feminine principle were not as much a part of the constitution of men.
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Ashis Nandy, “At the Edge of Psychology,” in Exiled at Home (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 38–39.
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Agamben , The Man Without Content, p. 51.
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See Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
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Augustine, City of God, trans. Gerald G. Walsh, S. J., et al. (New York: Doubleday, Image Books, 1958).
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Ivan Illich , Rivers North of the Future (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2005), p. 155.
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Louwrien Wijers, “Unfolding the Implicate Order,” in Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy (Amsterdam: SDU Publishers, 1990).
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Roy, K. (2018). Corpus and Curriculum: Finding Our Rhythm . In: Rethinking Curriculum in Times of Shifting Educational Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61106-8_8
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