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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... force to a more recent attempt to retrieve Burke's political reputation from a post - colonial perspective , Uday Singh Mehta's Liberalism and Empire , which , unlike O'Brien , follows the logic of Burke's rage against empire to a ...
... force to a more recent attempt to retrieve Burke's political reputation from a post - colonial perspective , Uday Singh Mehta's Liberalism and Empire , which , unlike O'Brien , follows the logic of Burke's rage against empire to a ...
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... force him in on himself , rousing his innermost resources in what may be seen as a rehearsal for arguments later outlined in the Enquiry : It gives me pleasure to see nature in those great tho ' terrible Scenes , it fills the mind with ...
... force him in on himself , rousing his innermost resources in what may be seen as a rehearsal for arguments later outlined in the Enquiry : It gives me pleasure to see nature in those great tho ' terrible Scenes , it fills the mind with ...
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... that have animated Irish culture during the past two centuries - the preference for obscurity over clarity , the expressive force of the word over the mimetic powers of the image , the fascination with 4 Edmund Burke and Ireland.
... that have animated Irish culture during the past two centuries - the preference for obscurity over clarity , the expressive force of the word over the mimetic powers of the image , the fascination with 4 Edmund Burke and Ireland.
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... force . In this respect , as Fuchs avers , Burke did not have to venture far to experience its effects at first hand , with the additional threats of war , famine and collective violence : There is nothing surprising about the sublime ...
... force . In this respect , as Fuchs avers , Burke did not have to venture far to experience its effects at first hand , with the additional threats of war , famine and collective violence : There is nothing surprising about the sublime ...
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... force . Instead , govern- ment depended on the continued willingness of the many , most of the time , to accept the domination of a few - even if this , he adds in a crucial aside , was only ' because they lacked the ability to ...
... force . Instead , govern- ment depended on the continued willingness of the many , most of the time , to accept the domination of a few - even if this , he adds in a crucial aside , was only ' because they lacked the ability to ...
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.