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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... con- trast , Burke's aesthetics outline an alternative , radical form of sensibility - the ' sympathetic sublime ' - in which the acknowledgement of oppression need not lead to self - absorption , but may xii Preface.
... con- trast , Burke's aesthetics outline an alternative , radical form of sensibility - the ' sympathetic sublime ' - in which the acknowledgement of oppression need not lead to self - absorption , but may xii Preface.
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... radical movement which sought to bring the revolutionary energies of America and France to bear on the political upheavals in Ireland in the 1790s . Transplanted from the venerable oak of the ancient constitution in Britain onto the ...
... radical movement which sought to bring the revolutionary energies of America and France to bear on the political upheavals in Ireland in the 1790s . Transplanted from the venerable oak of the ancient constitution in Britain onto the ...
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... radical United Irishmen in the 1790s : ' I must beg to observe , that , if we are not able to contrive some method of governing India well , which will not of necessity become the means of governing Great Britain ill , a ground is laid ...
... radical United Irishmen in the 1790s : ' I must beg to observe , that , if we are not able to contrive some method of governing India well , which will not of necessity become the means of governing Great Britain ill , a ground is laid ...
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... radical differences between the forms of crisis manifested in the Irish and the British economies , and , at a more philosophical level , of his determination to bring the obligations of the heart , based on the medieval right of ...
... radical differences between the forms of crisis manifested in the Irish and the British economies , and , at a more philosophical level , of his determination to bring the obligations of the heart , based on the medieval right of ...
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... radical sensibility generated by the ' sympathetic sublime ' is that in Ireland it lent itself to the revolutionary programmes of the United Irishmen rather than to incremental reforms of the kind advocated by Burke . It was in the ...
... radical sensibility generated by the ' sympathetic sublime ' is that in Ireland it lent itself to the revolutionary programmes of the United Irishmen rather than to incremental reforms of the kind advocated by Burke . It was in 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.