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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... wrote Burke's classical precursor , Longinus , ' scatters everything before it like a thunderbolt ' , and it is in this sense that the exemplary events that come under the aegis of the sublime represent an irruption into the continuum ...
... wrote Burke's classical precursor , Longinus , ' scatters everything before it like a thunderbolt ' , and it is in this sense that the exemplary events that come under the aegis of the sublime represent an irruption into the continuum ...
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... wrote , in words that applied equally to Ireland , ' whatever grievance is borne is denied to exist ; and all mute despair , and sullen patience , is construed into content and satisfaction . " " Burke's reading of eighteenth - century ...
... wrote , in words that applied equally to Ireland , ' whatever grievance is borne is denied to exist ; and all mute despair , and sullen patience , is construed into content and satisfaction . " " Burke's reading of eighteenth - century ...
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... wrote that his attachment to Ireland was motivated by an utter abhorrence to all kinds of public injustice and oppression , the worst species of which are those which being converted into maxims of state , and blending themselves with ...
... wrote that his attachment to Ireland was motivated by an utter abhorrence to all kinds of public injustice and oppression , the worst species of which are those which being converted into maxims of state , and blending themselves with ...
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... wrote of the indifference of the Protestant Ascendancy to the plight of the Catholic population in Ireland at the beginning of the decade that was to culminate in the carnage of the 1798 rebellion : They were quite certain , that no ...
... wrote of the indifference of the Protestant Ascendancy to the plight of the Catholic population in Ireland at the beginning of the decade that was to culminate in the carnage of the 1798 rebellion : They were quite certain , that no ...
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... wrote in the 1790s of Protestant celebrations of Cromwell and King William : ' One would not think that decorum , to say nothing of policy , would permit them to call up , by magic charms , the grounds , reasons , and principles of ...
... wrote in the 1790s of Protestant celebrations of Cromwell and King William : ' One would not think that decorum , to say nothing of policy , would permit them to call up , by magic charms , the grounds , reasons , and principles 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 |
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.