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Liberalism and Empire (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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We take 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 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, "Liberalism and
Empire" 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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