Author: Ghosal, Sibendra Nath
Title: Studies in Divine Aesthetics (of the Neo-Rasa-School)
Description: Santiniketan [West Bengal], Visva-Bharati, 1974. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, xii,196 pp. Series: Rasacandrika of Madhusudana Kavindra and Studies in Divine Aesthetics, Volume II.. Rubbed. Some tears & chips to spine. Good. ¶ Contents: History of Indian Aesthetics: The Early Rasa-Concept; The Scholastic Rasa-Concept; The Pre-Caitanya Concept of Rasa; The Position of the Santa on the Advent of the Vaisnava Poetics; The Neo-Rasa Cult; The New Approach of the Gaudiya Vaisnavism; The Post-Caitanya Concept of Rasa; Kesavadasa & his Rasikavriya; Influence of Kesavadasa on Madhusudana Kavindra; The Confluence of Two Currents of Poetics: The Scholastic School & the Neo-Rasa School; The Later Works on Divine Aesthhetics; Philosophy of Divine Aesthetics: The Divine Relish; The Two-fold Realisation of Relish; Ethics of Erotics; The Love-Divine orMahabhava; The Sweetest & Brightest Relish.

Keywords: Hindu Philosophy, India South Asia, Aesthetics History, Neo-Rasa Rasa, Caitanya Aesthetic, Vaisnava, Vaisnavism, Rasacandrika, Madhusudana, Kavindra