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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... regarding it . By unfamiliarity , I mean not sharing in the various ways of being and feeling that shape experience and give mean- ing to the communities and the individuals who constitute them — in a word , not being familiar with what ...
... regarding it . By unfamiliarity , I mean not sharing in the various ways of being and feeling that shape experience and give mean- ing to the communities and the individuals who constitute them — in a word , not being familiar with what ...
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... Regarding the perception of liberalism in India or by Indians of that time this work is largely silent.12 Moreover that 11. Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ( New York : Harcourt , Brace & World , 1955 ) . Hartz and his ...
... Regarding the perception of liberalism in India or by Indians of that time this work is largely silent.12 Moreover that 11. Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ( New York : Harcourt , Brace & World , 1955 ) . Hartz and his ...
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... regarding the government of India ; John Stuart Mill who is the defendant in James Fitzjames Stephen's accusations of bad faith regarding consent , equality , and fraternity . The strangeness of India , the various ways in which it ...
... regarding the government of India ; John Stuart Mill who is the defendant in James Fitzjames Stephen's accusations of bad faith regarding consent , equality , and fraternity . The strangeness of India , the various ways in which it ...
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... regarding the empire . In one such letter he states , " The people of England , who are governors , have an interest op- posed to that of the people of India , who are the governed , in the same manner as the interests of a despotic ...
... regarding the empire . In one such letter he states , " The people of England , who are governors , have an interest op- posed to that of the people of India , who are the governed , in the same manner as the interests of a despotic ...
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... regarding the very possibility of reason and freedom , as distinct from spatially located sentiments and entrenched feelings , being the basis for the boundaries of a nation . As part of that critique , Burke offers an argument as to ...
... regarding the very possibility of reason and freedom , as distinct from spatially located sentiments and entrenched feelings , being the basis for the boundaries of a nation . As part of that critique , Burke offers an argument as to ...
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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