The Lazy Eye

  To begin this article with a definition of something as broad as existentialism in simple, absolute terms would be a bit of a stretch. It is difficult to locate any particular doctrine to which existentialists uniformly subscribe to- an assumption that brings us to John Macquarie's explanation of existentialism as a  style  of philosophizing, rather than a philosophy. This argument is especially pertinent to any attempt to navigate existentialism in the works of an author who certainly preceded the  European  emergence of this philosophical trend. The first step in this attempt is then to locate Rabindranath Tagore within a national, political, and personal juncture that invariably raised an existential question: an urge for national self-determination, the poet's aversion to the burgeoning brand of aggressive nationalism, and his inclination to realize man as the center of things.  But even as the existentialist critique religiously navigates through the works of Tagore, the