Sunil M. Agnani
Hating Empire Properly:
- ISBN 13:
- 9780823267392
- author:
- Sunil M. Agnani
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 228
- Dimensions:
- 21.8 x 2.3 x 14 cm
- Genre:
- History, Countries & Regions, Asia
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sunil Agnani's Hating Empire Properly offers a fresh perspective on the Enlightenment thought of the West and East Indies. By examining colonial spaces in India and Haiti, Agnani reveals how thinkers like Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot viewed these regions, challenging recent understandings of their views on empire. Agnani's approach focuses on the limits and impasses of radical and conservative writers, asking what it means to critique empire "properly". Drawing from Theodor Adorno's idea that one must have tradition in oneself to hate it properly, Agnani proposes a critical inhabiting of dominant forms of reason as a way forward for the critique of both empire and Enlightenment. This volume makes important contributions to political theory, history, literary studies, American studies, and postcolonial studies.
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