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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... society that evolved in the eighteenth century , the body in pain , and its attendant ' right to complain ' , proved ... societies into the course of history . For the Enlightenment ( particularly its Scottish variant , as exemplified by ...
... society that evolved in the eighteenth century , the body in pain , and its attendant ' right to complain ' , proved ... societies into the course of history . For the Enlightenment ( particularly its Scottish variant , as exemplified by ...
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... society , those seeking to wield unrestrained power may often unwit- tingly defeat their imperious designs by empowering their victims , pushing them to equally unrestrained acts of resistance : what well Laid and what better executed S ...
... society , those seeking to wield unrestrained power may often unwit- tingly defeat their imperious designs by empowering their victims , pushing them to equally unrestrained acts of resistance : what well Laid and what better executed S ...
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... societies . This , to use one of his favourite metaphors , was often little more than a thin crust of top - soil , be ... society held down by force . Instead , govern- ment depended on the continued willingness of the many , most of the ...
... societies . This , to use one of his favourite metaphors , was often little more than a thin crust of top - soil , be ... society held down by force . Instead , govern- ment depended on the continued willingness of the many , most of the ...
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... societies they endeavour to civilize : ' the medicine of state corrupted into its poison ' ( Reflections , 126 ) . Nor ... society , is the first principle ( the germ as it were ) of public affections . It is the first link in the series ...
... societies they endeavour to civilize : ' the medicine of state corrupted into its poison ' ( Reflections , 126 ) . Nor ... society , is the first principle ( the germ as it were ) of public affections . It is the first link in the series ...
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... illusions , but serves to remind us that there is indeed a price for progress , and that only those societies offer hope for the future who settle their debt to the past . PART I The politics of pain I ' This king Introduction 17.
... illusions , but serves to remind us that there is indeed a price for progress , and that only those societies offer hope for the future who settle their debt to the past . PART I The politics of pain I ' This king Introduction 17.
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.