New horizons of human development

art, spirituality and social transformations

Ananta K. Giri

pp. 21-47

in: John Clammer, Ananta K. Giri (eds), The aesthetics of development, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Human development means not only economic, political and ethical development but it also means artistic and spiritual development. All these dimensions of development are interlinked but we have not paid sufficient attention to artistic and spiritual bases and horizons of human development and social transformations. To develop, both individually as well as collectively, is to develop one's artistic and spiritual potential. The essay explores relationships among art, spirituality and human development and describes examples from histories of ideas, art experiments and educational movements for creatively cultivating cross-fertilization among them further.