Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal ThoughtUniversity of Chicago Press, 2018 M06 29 - 245 páginas We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated. |
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... 77 Four LIBERALISM , EMPIRE , AND TERRITORY 115 Five EDMUND BURKE ON THE PERILS OF THE EMPIRE 153 Conclusion EXPERIENCE AND UNFAMILIARITY 190 Index 219 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS▻ in The writing of this book has been a vii Contents.
... 77 Four LIBERALISM , EMPIRE , AND TERRITORY 115 Five EDMUND BURKE ON THE PERILS OF THE EMPIRE 153 Conclusion EXPERIENCE AND UNFAMILIARITY 190 Index 219 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS▻ in The writing of this book has been a vii Contents.
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... experiences that were substantially European , if not almost exclusively national . In the empire it found a challenge to this creed , even before nationalism along with other responses expressed that challenge , be- cause there was no ...
... experiences that were substantially European , if not almost exclusively national . In the empire it found a challenge to this creed , even before nationalism along with other responses expressed that challenge , be- cause there was no ...
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... experience and give mean- ing to the communities and the individuals who constitute them — in a word , not being familiar with what was experientially familiar to others in the empire . Understood as such , unfamiliarity is obviously a ...
... experience and give mean- ing to the communities and the individuals who constitute them — in a word , not being familiar with what was experientially familiar to others in the empire . Understood as such , unfamiliarity is obviously a ...
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... Dumont , in The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo , ed . Piero Sraffa in collaboration with M. Dobb ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1951 ) , 7:40 n . systems : in a word , diversities of experience and 8 CHAPTER ONE.
... Dumont , in The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo , ed . Piero Sraffa in collaboration with M. Dobb ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1951 ) , 7:40 n . systems : in a word , diversities of experience and 8 CHAPTER ONE.
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... experience and life forms across virtu- ally every relevant register of reckoning . In these conditions resides the unfamiliarity that this book explores . All this at a time when European thought , certainly liberal thought , had a ...
... experience and life forms across virtu- ally every relevant register of reckoning . In these conditions resides the unfamiliarity that this book explores . All this at a time when European thought , certainly liberal thought , had a ...
Contenido
1 | |
Strategies Liberal Conventions and Imperial Exclusions | 46 |
Progress Civilization and Consent | 77 |
Liberalism Empire and Territory | 115 |
Edmund Burke on the Perils of the Empire | 153 |
Experience and Unfamiliarity | 190 |
Index | 219 |
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought Uday Singh Mehta Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought Uday Singh Mehta Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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