Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial SublimeCambridge University Press, 2003/10/16 - 304 ページ 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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... reason , not the least of the ironies of Burke's colonial sublime is that , in an Irish context , its cultural logic led ultimately to the political project of the United Irishmen , the radical movement which sought to bring the ...
... reason , not the least of the ironies of Burke's colonial sublime is that , in an Irish context , its cultural logic led ultimately to the political project of the United Irishmen , the radical movement which sought to bring the ...
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... reason that Burke sought to displace the primacy of vision , the sovereignty of sight , from its central position in theories of aesthetic experience . Whereas the new aesthetic theories promulgated by his French contemporaries such as ...
... reason that Burke sought to displace the primacy of vision , the sovereignty of sight , from its central position in theories of aesthetic experience . Whereas the new aesthetic theories promulgated by his French contemporaries such as ...
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... reason . His grounding of moral- ity in ' sympathy ' , of the kind that lends itself to personal or communal ties , is consistent with this sense of local allegiance , and is given eloquent expression in one of the most famous passages ...
... reason . His grounding of moral- ity in ' sympathy ' , of the kind that lends itself to personal or communal ties , is consistent with this sense of local allegiance , and is given eloquent expression in one of the most famous passages ...
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... reason in much mainstream Enlightenment thought . It is worth surmising whether this is what the United Irishman Thomas Russell , a returned soldier from India , had in mind when he remarked on one occasion that he preferred Burke's ...
... reason in much mainstream Enlightenment thought . It is worth surmising whether this is what the United Irishman Thomas Russell , a returned soldier from India , had in mind when he remarked on one occasion that he preferred Burke's ...
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... reasons , and principles of those terrible confiscatory and exterminatory periods ' ( ' Richard Burke ' , vi , 77 ) when they established their rule . Tradition in this context was little more than revis- iting the scene of a crime ...
... reasons , and principles of those terrible confiscatory and exterminatory periods ' ( ' Richard Burke ' , vi , 77 ) when they established their rule . Tradition in this context was little more than revis- iting the scene of a crime ...
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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 |
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12 ページ - 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.