Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial SublimeCambridge University Press, 16.10.2003 - 304 Seiten This pioneering study of Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his lifelong political concerns. The concept of the sublime, which lay at the heart of his aesthetics, addressed itself primarily to the experience of terror, and it is this spectre that haunts Burke's political imagination throughout his career. Luke Gibbons argues that this found expression in his preoccupation with political terror, whether in colonial Ireland and India, or revolutionary America and France. Burke's preoccupation with violence, sympathy and pain allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment, but from a position no less committed to the plight of the oppressed, and to political emancipation. This major reassessment of a key political and cultural figure will appeal to Irish studies and Post-Colonial specialists, political theorists and Romanticists. |
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... mind . I wish to thank my commissioning editor , Ray Ryan , and the fine production team at Cambridge , Rachel de Wachter , Sheila Kane , Neil de Cort and Paul Watt , for steering the book through the various stages of its publication ...
... mind . I wish to thank my commissioning editor , Ray Ryan , and the fine production team at Cambridge , Rachel de Wachter , Sheila Kane , Neil de Cort and Paul Watt , for steering the book through the various stages of its publication ...
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... mind is capable of feeling ... When danger or pain press too nearly , they are incapable of giving any delight , and are simply terrible ; but at certain distances , and with certain modifications , they may be , and they are delightful ...
... mind is capable of feeling ... When danger or pain press too nearly , they are incapable of giving any delight , and are simply terrible ; but at certain distances , and with certain modifications , they may be , and they are delightful ...
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... mind with grand ideas , and turns the Soul in upon herself . This together with the sedentary Life I lead forc'd some reflections on me which would not otherwise have occurrd . I consider'd how little man is yet in [ h ] is own mind how ...
... mind with grand ideas , and turns the Soul in upon herself . This together with the sedentary Life I lead forc'd some reflections on me which would not otherwise have occurrd . I consider'd how little man is yet in [ h ] is own mind how ...
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... mind , whilst the idea of the reality was transient ; and to some perhaps never really occurred in any shape , to whom it is notwithstanding very affecting , as war , death , famine , & c . ( Enquiry , 173-4 ) The mention of famine ' is ...
... mind , whilst the idea of the reality was transient ; and to some perhaps never really occurred in any shape , to whom it is notwithstanding very affecting , as war , death , famine , & c . ( Enquiry , 173-4 ) The mention of famine ' is ...
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... mind when he remarked on one occasion that he preferred Burke's Enquiry into the Sublime and Beau- tiful to the political ideas of Thomas Paine.35 Not least of the ironies of the radical sensibility generated by the ' sympathetic ...
... mind when he remarked on one occasion that he preferred Burke's Enquiry into the Sublime and Beau- tiful to the political ideas of Thomas Paine.35 Not least of the ironies of the radical sensibility generated by the ' sympathetic ...
Inhalt
This king of terrors Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions | 21 |
Philoctetes and colonial Ireland the wounded body as national narrative | 39 |
The sympathetic sublime Edmund Burke Adam Smith and the politics of pain | 83 |
Did Edmund Burke cause the Great Famine? Commerce culture and colonialism | 121 |
Transquillity tinged with terror the sublime and agrarian insurgency | 147 |
Burke and colonialism the Enlightenment and cultural diversity | 166 |
Subtilized into savages Burke progress and primitivism | 183 |
The return of the native the United Irishmen culture and colonialism | 208 |
towards a postcolonial Enlightenment | 230 |
Notes | 239 |
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Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime Luke Gibbons Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract Adam Smith American argued Barry's beautiful body British Burke's aesthetics Catholic century Chapter cited civilization colonial concerned conquest constitution Cork custom David Hume distress Dublin E. P. Thompson economy Edmund Burke effect eighteenth eighteenth-century Ireland England English Enquiry expression famine followed by volume France French Revolution History human Hume imagination Impeachment Indians Irish Jacobins James Barry Jane McCrea John justice Langrishe language Letter liberty London Lord Lord Edward Fitzgerald modern Moral Sentiments murder of Jane Nagle narrative native nature Neoptolemus O'Conor oppression Ossian Oxford pain painting parentheses passion Philoctetes political primitivism Protestant radical references will take Reflections relation republican revolutionary savage Scottish Enlightenment seen sense Sheehy social society spectator Speech sublime subsequent references suffering sympathetic sublime sympathy take the form terror theory Thomas Thomas Hussey Thoughts and Details tradition United Irishmen violence Warren Hastings Whiteboy William wounded writings wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.