
Written work
The Human Cycle

A philosophy of history: starting from Karl Lamprecht, Aurobindo describes societies passing through symbolic, typal, conventional, individualist and subjective ages, and announces a spiritual age in which society would be organised from the soul rather than from reason or utility. It is also a critique of the limits of rationalism and of the modern state.
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Authorship note
Published in Arya between 1916 and 1918 as “The Psychology of Social Development”; revised and issued as a book in 1949. CWSA 25.
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English
Sri Aurobindo
Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, vol. 25 (1997)
The Conscious LibraryComplete Works of Sri Aurobindo, vol. 25 (1997)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, Pondicherry
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Sri Aurobindo
The Human Cycle
The Conscious LibraryThe Human Cycle
E. P. Dutton, Nueva York, 1953
Sri Aurobindo
The Human Cycle
The Conscious LibraryThe Human Cycle
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949
Primera edición en libro.
Other works by Sri Aurobindo
- The Life Divine · 1939
- The Synthesis of Yoga · 1948
- Essays on the Gita · 1922
- The Secret of the Veda · 1956
- Hymns to the Mystic Fire · 1946
- Isha Upanishad · 1914
- Kena and Other Upanishads · 1915
- The Ideal of Human Unity · 1919
- War and Self-Determination · 1920
- The Future Poetry · 1953
- The Renaissance in India · 1920
- A Defence of Indian Culture (The Foundations of Indian Culture) · 1953
- The Problem of Rebirth · 1952
- Heraclitus · 1941
- The Mother · 1928
- Lights on Yoga · 1935
- Bases of Yoga · 1936
- More Lights on Yoga · 1948
- The Riddle of This World · 1933
- Letters on Yoga · 1958
- Letters on Himself and the Ashram · 2011
- Letters on Poetry and Art · 2004
- Thoughts and Glimpses · 1920
- Thoughts and Aphorisms · 1958
- Essays Divine and Human · 1994
- Essays in Philosophy and Yoga · 1998
- The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth · 1952
- The Hour of God · 1959
- Record of Yoga · 2001
- Yogic Sadhan (attributed) · 1911
- New Lamps for Old · 1893
- Bhawani Mandir · 1905
- Bande Mataram: Political Writings and Speeches 1890–1908 · 2002
- The Doctrine of Passive Resistance · 1948
- Uttarpara Speech · 1909
- Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909–1910 · 1997
- The Ideal of the Karmayogin · 1918
- A System of National Education · 1921
- The Brain of India · 1921
- Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda · 1940
- Tales of Prison Life (Kara-kahini) · 1910
- Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit · 2017
- Early Cultural Writings · 2003
- Kalidasa · 1929
- Vyasa and Valmiki · 1956
- The Significance of Indian Art · 1947
- Vedic and Philological Studies · 2013
- Translations · 2003
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol · 1950
- Collected Poems · 2009
- Songs to Myrtilla · 1895
- Urvasie · 1896
- Love and Death · 1921
- Ahana and Other Poems · 1915
- Poems Past and Present · 1946
- Last Poems · 1952
- Ilion: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters · 1957
- Collected Plays and Stories · 1998
- Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest · 2006
- Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) · 1997
- Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1959
- Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1966
- The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Peter Heehs) · 2008
- Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness (Satprem) · 1964
Sources
- Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA). 37 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 1997–2025. Sustituye a la Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL, 30 vols., 1972).
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