TY - BOOK AU - Agnani,Sunil M. TI - Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism SN - 9780823251803 AV - JC359 .A55 2013 U1 - 325/.3 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Literary Studies KW - Postcolonial Studies KW - HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General KW - bisacsh KW - Burke KW - Diderot KW - Enlightenment KW - Haiti KW - India KW - anticolonial KW - colony KW - empire KW - imperialism KW - modernity KW - post-colonial KW - postcolonial N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity --; Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics --; PART I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment --; 1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot’s Thought --; 2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes --; PART II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique --; 3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest --; 4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity --; 5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke’s Asia Writings --; Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination ofthe West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and DenisDiderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largelyunacknowledged part of the matrix of Enlightenment thought in which eighteenth-century European and American self-conceptions evolved. By focusing on colonial spaces of the Enlightenment, especially India and Haiti, he demonstrates how Burke's fearful view of the French Revolution—the defining event of modernity— as shaped by prior reflection on these other domains. Exploring with sympathy the angry outbursts against injustice in the writings of Diderot, he nonetheless challenges recent understandings of him as a univocal critic of empire by showing the persistence of a fantasy of consensual colonialism in his thought. By looking at the impasses and limits in the thought of both radical and conservative writers, Agnani asks what it means to critique empire “properly.” Drawing his method from Theodor Adorno’s quip that “one must have tradition in oneself, in order to hate it properly,” he proposes a critical inhabiting of dominant forms of reason as a way forward for the critique of both empire and Enlightenment.Thus, this volume makes important contributions to political theory, history, literary studies, American studies, and postcolonial studies UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252169?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252169 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823252169/original ER -