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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... seen as complementing Mehta's focus on India by integrating Burke's aesthetics and his Irish background more fully into these searching critiques of colonialism . In recent decades , and from diverse points of view , scholars , most ...
... seen as complementing Mehta's focus on India by integrating Burke's aesthetics and his Irish background more fully into these searching critiques of colonialism . In recent decades , and from diverse points of view , scholars , most ...
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... seen as a rehearsal for arguments later outlined in the Enquiry : It gives me pleasure to see nature in those great tho ' terrible Scenes , it fills the mind with grand ideas , and turns the Soul in upon herself . This together with the ...
... seen as a rehearsal for arguments later outlined in the Enquiry : It gives me pleasure to see nature in those great tho ' terrible Scenes , it fills the mind with grand ideas , and turns the Soul in upon herself . This together with the ...
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... seen as an attempt to prevent the aesthetic from becoming , in effect , an anaesthetic . Underlying this was a determination to remove the voyeuristic detachment from these spectacles of suffering , emphasizing the true horror that ...
... seen as an attempt to prevent the aesthetic from becoming , in effect , an anaesthetic . Underlying this was a determination to remove the voyeuristic detachment from these spectacles of suffering , emphasizing the true horror that ...
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... seen of hell , whether the painter did not intend something ludicrous ' . By contrast : there are many things of a very affecting nature , which can seldom occur in the reality , but the words which represent them often do ; and thus ...
... seen of hell , whether the painter did not intend something ludicrous ' . By contrast : there are many things of a very affecting nature , which can seldom occur in the reality , but the words which represent them often do ; and thus ...
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... seen , however , whether Burke's preoccupation with the injured body , and , by extension , with the victims of progress in its revolu- tionary or colonial guise , is a rejection of the Enlightenment or , as I suggest , an extension of ...
... seen , however , whether Burke's preoccupation with the injured body , and , by extension , with the victims of progress in its revolu- tionary or colonial guise , is a rejection of the Enlightenment or , as I suggest , an extension of ...
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 |
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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
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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.