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Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Sunil M. Agnani
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Description for Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Paperback. In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This con Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KJ; HBJF; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of
the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis
Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largely
unacknowledged 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823267392
SKU
V9780823267392
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About Sunil M. Agnani
Sunil M. Agnani is Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has held previous positions at the Princeton Society of Fellows and the University of Michigan.
Reviews for Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
"Hating Empire Properly will be praised by political philosophers as well as literary critics for its brilliant 'solution' of the Edmund Burke 'problem': how could a 'liberal' on America and India also be a'conservative' on France? How can we grasp Denis Diderot's defense of colonial commerce alongside his denunciations of empire? Neither apologia nor jeremiad,Agnani's compelling study of the Enlightenment ... Read more