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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... relevant , as indeed they often are , to understanding how liberal theorists responded to parts of the world with which they were largely unfamiliar but which also intensely preoccupied them . Unfamiliarity is not igno- rance . In fact ...
... relevant , as indeed they often are , to understanding how liberal theorists responded to parts of the world with which they were largely unfamiliar but which also intensely preoccupied them . Unfamiliarity is not igno- rance . In fact ...
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... relevant categories such as history , ethnicity , civilizational hi- erarchies , and occasionally race and blood ties ; and who fashion argu- ments for the empire's at least temporary necessity and foreseeable pro- longation . In ...
... relevant categories such as history , ethnicity , civilizational hi- erarchies , and occasionally race and blood ties ; and who fashion argu- ments for the empire's at least temporary necessity and foreseeable pro- longation . In ...
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... 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 growing confidence in its uni- versality and ...
... 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 growing confidence in its uni- versality and ...
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... relevance of the epis- temology and psychology of what Hume and Smith called sympathy , which clearly influenced Burke's thought , informs all these essays be- cause it relates directly to the issue of understanding experience and power ...
... relevance of the epis- temology and psychology of what Hume and Smith called sympathy , which clearly influenced Burke's thought , informs all these essays be- cause it relates directly to the issue of understanding experience and power ...
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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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