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100 1 _aAgnani, Sunil M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHating Empire Properly :
_bThe Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism /
_cSunil M. Agnani.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPrologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity --
_tIntroduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics --
_tPART I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment --
_t1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot’s Thought --
_t2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes --
_tPART II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique --
_t3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest --
_t4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity --
_t5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke’s Asia Writings --
_tEpilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aImperialism
_xHistory.
650 0 _aImperialism
_xPhilosophy.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aPostcolonial Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
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653 _aBurke.
653 _aDiderot.
653 _aEnlightenment.
653 _aHaiti.
653 _aIndia.
653 _aanticolonial.
653 _acolony.
653 _aempire.
653 _aimperialism.
653 _amodernity.
653 _apost-colonial.
653 _apostcolonial.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252169?locatt=mode:legacy
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