The Lexicon · Genealogy · 19th Century
TAGORE, RABINDRANATH
1861–1941
Surplus in Man (The Reverence Beyond Function)
Tagore: there is a surplus in the human beyond what biological survival requires; art lives in this surplus. CoCA's Veneration of Potential Utility (§3.3.4) is the Tagorean surplus given an aesthetic. The waterproof jacket in the climate-controlled office is surplus made beautiful. The institution preserves the surplus deliberately. The surplus is not waste. The surplus is the practice.