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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... French Revolution , are prefigured in his aesthetic writings , but are unable to account for his early preoccupation with fear and violence . It is my contention that these can be traced in part to the formative Irish milieu of his ...
... French Revolution , are prefigured in his aesthetic writings , but are unable to account for his early preoccupation with fear and violence . It is my contention that these can be traced in part to the formative Irish milieu of his ...
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... French Revolution ( Ronald Paulson ) , the limits of human endurance in polar exploration ( Francis Spufford ) , intimations of nuclear catastrophe in our own time ( Frances Ferguson ; Rob Wilson ) , or more generally , the anguish of ...
... French Revolution ( Ronald Paulson ) , the limits of human endurance in polar exploration ( Francis Spufford ) , intimations of nuclear catastrophe in our own time ( Frances Ferguson ; Rob Wilson ) , or more generally , the anguish of ...
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... French contemporaries such as Diderot and Rousseau looked to clarity and trans- parency as the ruling principles of art , Burke instead argued that darkness , obscurity and indistinctness are responsible for the most powerful aesthetic ...
... French contemporaries such as Diderot and Rousseau looked to clarity and trans- parency as the ruling principles of art , Burke instead argued that darkness , obscurity and indistinctness are responsible for the most powerful aesthetic ...
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... French Revolution is framed in terms of the tensions between terror and beauty worked out in the Enquiry in the 1750s : I think we can begin to see where Burke's imagery of the revolution in fact came from and what it meant to him . It ...
... French Revolution is framed in terms of the tensions between terror and beauty worked out in the Enquiry in the 1750s : I think we can begin to see where Burke's imagery of the revolution in fact came from and what it meant to him . It ...
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... French Revolution is now a one - finger exercise in politics and history ... This sort of thing is indeed so easy that we may be in danger of missing a more general point , which has less to do with his condemnations than with his ...
... French Revolution is now a one - finger exercise in politics and history ... This sort of thing is indeed so easy that we may be in danger of missing a more general point , which has less to do with his condemnations than with his ...
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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