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Hating Empire Properly - The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism (Paperback)
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Hating Empire Properly - The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism (Paperback)
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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 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.
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