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.
具體描述
讀後感
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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
評分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...
用戶評價
這作者囉嗦不說(論點其實很簡單)，還喜歡裝逼用生僻詞。
评分Again, the section on Burke is just fantastic.
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.
评分這作者囉嗦不說(論點其實很簡單)，還喜歡裝逼用生僻詞。
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.
相關圖書
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息，本站不存儲任何數據與內容，任何內容與數據均與本站無關，如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈圖書下載中心 版权所有