Liberalism and Empire

Name: Liberalism and Empire
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226518817
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A Study in Nineteenth-century British Liberal Thought

Autor: Singh Uday Mehta

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Editura: University of Chicago Press

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One takes liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet...

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Autor

Singh Uday Mehta

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1999

Pagini

232

EAN

9780226518817

Enbook ID

04547360

Editura

University of Chicago Press

Greutate

550

Dimensiuni

164 x 239 x 24

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One takes liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Singh Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke - a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion - that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, this book reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.

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