Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial SublimeCambridge University Press, 2003 M10 16 - 304 páginas This pioneering study of Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his lifelong political concerns. The concept of the sublime, which lay at the heart of his aesthetics, addressed itself primarily to the experience of terror, and it is this spectre that haunts Burke's political imagination throughout his career. Luke Gibbons argues that this found expression in his preoccupation with political terror, whether in colonial Ireland and India, or revolutionary America and France. Burke's preoccupation with violence, sympathy and pain allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment, but from a position no less committed to the plight of the oppressed, and to political emancipation. This major reassessment of a key political and cultural figure will appeal to Irish studies and Post-Colonial specialists, political theorists and Romanticists. |
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... ( Chapter 1 ) , the march to Versailles on 5/6 October 1789 ( Chapter 7 ) , or seemingly more random events such as the murder of Jane McCrea during the American Revolution ( Chapter 7 ) , the violation of young women in India ( Chapter 3 ) ...
... ( Chapter 1 ) , the march to Versailles on 5/6 October 1789 ( Chapter 7 ) , or seemingly more random events such as the murder of Jane McCrea during the American Revolution ( Chapter 7 ) , the violation of young women in India ( Chapter 3 ) ...
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... Chapter 4 , but may have resulted from his own experience of famine as a young boy raised in the Cork countryside in 1740-1 , where the com- bined failure of both the potato and cereal crop due to a devastating ' arctic ' winter led to ...
... Chapter 4 , but may have resulted from his own experience of famine as a young boy raised in the Cork countryside in 1740-1 , where the com- bined failure of both the potato and cereal crop due to a devastating ' arctic ' winter led to ...
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... Chapter 2 , it is embodied in the abject figure of Philoctetes , the wounded outcast of Sophocles's tragedy who , abandoned on an island , comes to rep- resent the plight of an abandoned people . Philoctetes resurfaced in the English ...
... Chapter 2 , it is embodied in the abject figure of Philoctetes , the wounded outcast of Sophocles's tragedy who , abandoned on an island , comes to rep- resent the plight of an abandoned people . Philoctetes resurfaced in the English ...
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... Chapter 3 , is the assertion of the right to complain , to protest not only against injustice but against the new neo - stoical conception of the citizen , exemplified by Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) , which ...
... Chapter 3 , is the assertion of the right to complain , to protest not only against injustice but against the new neo - stoical conception of the citizen , exemplified by Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) , which ...
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... Chapter 4 , I argue that Burke's own writings were subjected to the ' perversity thesis ' in that his authority was invoked by ideologues in the British Treasury to justify the iron laws of economic rationality that presided over the ...
... Chapter 4 , I argue that Burke's own writings were subjected to the ' perversity thesis ' in that his authority was invoked by ideologues in the British Treasury to justify the iron laws of economic rationality that presided over the ...
Contenido
This king of terrors Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions | 21 |
Philoctetes and colonial Ireland the wounded body as national narrative | 39 |
The sympathetic sublime Edmund Burke Adam Smith and the politics of pain | 83 |
Did Edmund Burke cause the Great Famine? Commerce culture and colonialism | 121 |
Transquillity tinged with terror the sublime and agrarian insurgency | 147 |
Burke and colonialism the Enlightenment and cultural diversity | 166 |
Subtilized into savages Burke progress and primitivism | 183 |
The return of the native the United Irishmen culture and colonialism | 208 |
towards a postcolonial Enlightenment | 230 |
Notes | 239 |
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Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime Luke Gibbons Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 12 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.