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Awakening
In the nineteenth century, Bengal witnessed an extraordinary intellectual flowering. Bengali prose emerged, and with it the novel and modern blank verse; old arguments about religion, society, and the lives of women were overturned; great schools and colleges were created; new ideas surfaced in science. And all these changes were led by a handful of remarkable men and women. For the first time comes a gripping narrative about the Bengal Renaissance recounted through the lives of all its players from Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore. Immaculately researched, told with colour, drama, and passion, Awakening is a stunning achievement.
The Bengal Renaissance
"This book addresses the Bengal Renaissance from the perspective of philosophy of science and the psychology of creativity. Dasgupta shows that the Renaissance is characterized by a 'collective cognitive identity' which had its roots in British Orientalism and flowered with a remarkable community of creative individuals in nineteenth-century Bengal."--Cover p. [4].
Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post Second World War era. In this Very Short Introduction, Subrata Dasgupta sheds light on these lesser known areas and considers the conceptual basis of computer science. Discussing algorithms, programming, and sequential and parallel processing, he cons...
It Began with Babbage
A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.
A Cognitive-Historical Approach to Creativity
At the heart of creativity is the practice of bringing something new into existence, whether it be a material object or abstract idea, thereby making history and enriching the creative tradition. A Cognitive Historical Approach to Creativity explores the idea that creativity is both a cognitive phenomenon and a historical process. Blending insights and theories of cognitive science with the skills, mentality and investigative tools of the historian, this book considers diverse issues including: the role of the unconscious in creativity, the creative process, creating history with a new object or idea, and the relationship between creators and consumers. Drawing on a plethora of real-life examples from the eighteenth century through to the present day, and from distinct fields including the arts, literature, science and engineering, Subrata Dasgupta emphasizes historicity as a fundamental feature of creativity. Providing a unified, integrative, interdisciplinary treatment of cognitive history and its application to understanding and explaining creativity in its multiple domains, A Cognitive Historical Approach to Creativity is essential reading for all researchers of creativity.
Salaam Stanley Matthews
Subrata Dasgupta was six years old when his parents came to Britain from Calcutta. In this affectionate portrait of growing up in Nottingham and Derby in the 1950s, Dasgupta recalls his childhood, the culture clashes and his obsession with football.
The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon
By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies. The Renaissance has attracted the attention of distinguished scholars from many different vantage points – political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural. In this volume, Subrata Dasgupta sheds an alternative light on the Renaissance by considering it as a creative phenomenon. To be creative is to make history by producing material and/or abstract artifacts that are both new and consequential; to be creative also entails drawing on history and on the culture of the time....
Technology and Creativity
Taking readers on a fascinating tour through the history of modern technology and the nature of human creativity, Dasgupta offers a brilliant, groundbreaking exploration of how cognitive psychology can shed light on the technological mind. With its rare combination of an intimate, often conversational writing style and clear expositions of difficult concepts, the book will be of interest to all who have pondered the nature of human creativity. 16 illustrations.
Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science
This book is the first comprehensive, critical study of Jagadis Chandra Bose's science and philosophy of science in the context of Western scientific culture. Drawing mainly on primary scientific literature and unpublished archival material, it describes Bose's precise contribution to physics, radio, and biology.
