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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For a long time, I have suspected that there is certain kind of connection between liberalism and empire and touched on it in my Masters' dissertation. Mehta's book Liberalism and Empire gives me a very detailed and insightful perspective to think of the r...
评分For a long time, I have suspected that there is certain kind of connection between liberalism and empire and touched on it in my Masters' dissertation. Mehta's book Liberalism and Empire gives me a very detailed and insightful perspective to think of the r...
评分For a long time, I have suspected that there is certain kind of connection between liberalism and empire and touched on it in my Masters' dissertation. Mehta's book Liberalism and Empire gives me a very detailed and insightful perspective to think of the r...
评分For a long time, I have suspected that there is certain kind of connection between liberalism and empire and touched on it in my Masters' dissertation. Mehta's book Liberalism and Empire gives me a very detailed and insightful perspective to think of the r...
评分For a long time, I have suspected that there is certain kind of connection between liberalism and empire and touched on it in my Masters' dissertation. Mehta's book Liberalism and Empire gives me a very detailed and insightful perspective to think of the r...
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Again, the section on Burke is just fantastic.
评分这作者啰嗦不说(论点其实很简单)，还喜欢装逼用生僻词。
评分这作者啰嗦不说(论点其实很简单)，还喜欢装逼用生僻词。
评分Interesting perspective on Burke and the understanding of "experience" as a challenge to Anglo-liberal tradition. Coupling this with Manjapra's interpretation of the bifurcation of European understandings of selfhood.
评分Again, the section on Burke is just fantastic.
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