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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... issues in this period , it is Burke who is most sensitive to the com- plexities of imperial links and to the strengths and vulnerabilities upon which they draw at both ends . ' Similarly , no thinker or statesman of the 1. Throughout ...
... issues in this period , it is Burke who is most sensitive to the com- plexities of imperial links and to the strengths and vulnerabilities upon which they draw at both ends . ' Similarly , no thinker or statesman of the 1. Throughout ...
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... issues raised by the com- position of the constituency over which British power and dominion were being exercised . The left - wing critic Harold Laski rightly com- mented that " [ on ] Ireland , America , and India , he [ Burke ] was ...
... issues raised by the com- position of the constituency over which British power and dominion were being exercised . The left - wing critic Harold Laski rightly com- mented that " [ on ] Ireland , America , and India , he [ Burke ] was ...
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... issues of constitutional and legislative design for India ( a fact that perhaps explains a comment he made toward the end of his life : “ I shall be the dead legislative of British India " ) ; that the major work of James Mill's career ...
... issues of constitutional and legislative design for India ( a fact that perhaps explains a comment he made toward the end of his life : “ I shall be the dead legislative of British India " ) ; that the major work of James Mill's career ...
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... issue of how a body of ideas that pro- fessed a universal reach responded to the encounter with the unfamiliar . There are , as I argue , reasons internal to liberalism why this question is not articulated with such starkness within ...
... issue of how a body of ideas that pro- fessed a universal reach responded to the encounter with the unfamiliar . There are , as I argue , reasons internal to liberalism why this question is not articulated with such starkness within ...
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... issues , there was , nevertheless , a very distinctive hue to that creed in their appropriation of it . And if there was mimicry in these efforts there was also camouflage and subterfuge . The recent writings by Ashis Nandy , S. Kaviraj ...
... issues , there was , nevertheless , a very distinctive hue to that creed in their appropriation of it . And if there was mimicry in these efforts there was also camouflage and subterfuge . The recent writings by Ashis Nandy , S. Kaviraj ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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