Hating Empire Properly : The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism / Sunil M. Agnani.
Agnani, Sunil M., author.
2013
JC359 .A55 2013
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Title Hating Empire Properly : The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism / Sunil M. Agnani.
Author Agnani, Sunil M., author.
ISBN 9780823252169
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252169
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (320 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823252169 doi
Call Number JC359 .A55 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 325/.3
Summary In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination ofthe West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and DenisDiderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largelyunacknowledged 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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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity
Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics
PART I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment
1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot's Thought
2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes
PART II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique
3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest
4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity
5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke's Asia Writings
Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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