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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... familiar with its intellectual cul- ture in the humanities and social sciences would testify to its remarkable vibrancy . This book has benefited enormously from that culture and numerous individuals who contribute to it . Lloyd and ...
... familiar with its intellectual cul- ture in the humanities and social sciences would testify to its remarkable vibrancy . This book has benefited enormously from that culture and numerous individuals who contribute to it . Lloyd and ...
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... familiar with what was experientially familiar to others in the empire . Understood as such , unfamiliarity is obviously a relative and shifting condition . But the mere fact that the boundaries between the familiar and unfamiliar are ...
... familiar with what was experientially familiar to others in the empire . Understood as such , unfamiliarity is obviously a relative and shifting condition . But the mere fact that the boundaries between the familiar and unfamiliar are ...
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... familiar situations they simply took for granted , thus often over- looking the element of choice and the conditions that made possible its apparent denial . It is not that the engagement with India somehow ex- poses all the synaptic ...
... familiar situations they simply took for granted , thus often over- looking the element of choice and the conditions that made possible its apparent denial . It is not that the engagement with India somehow ex- poses all the synaptic ...
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... familiar categories , which neverthe- less remain buried and largely concealed in the writings on India , is obvious and on the surface in this discussion . Here new issues emerge . We see , for example , John Stuart Mill and ...
... familiar categories , which neverthe- less remain buried and largely concealed in the writings on India , is obvious and on the surface in this discussion . Here new issues emerge . We see , for example , John Stuart Mill and ...
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... familiar . This is precisely how Lord Macaulay imagines the role of imperial pedagogy : it operates in the malleable and concealed space behind the starkness of blood and color to reproduce the familiar , even if somatically refracted ...
... familiar . This is precisely how Lord Macaulay imagines the role of imperial pedagogy : it operates in the malleable and concealed space behind the starkness of blood and color to reproduce the familiar , even if somatically refracted ...
Contenido
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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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