LEADER 04552nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910788210103321 005 20220204040603.0 010 $a0-8232-5215-9 010 $a0-8232-5216-7 010 $a0-8232-5305-8 010 $a0-8232-5181-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823252169 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060613 035 $a(EBL)3239815 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871609 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11453982 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871609 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10824154 035 $a(PQKB)10584134 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239815 035 $a(OCoLC)847005639 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22166 035 $a(DE-B1597)555197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823252169 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239815 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10693766 035 $a(OCoLC)923764027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1132258 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060613 100 $a20130130d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHating empire properly$b[electronic resource] $ethe two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment anticolonialism /$fSunil M. Agnani 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-6739-3 311 0 $a0-8232-5180-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity --$tIntroduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics --$t1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot?s Thought --$t2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes --$t3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest --$t4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity --$t5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke?s Asia Writings --$tEpilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 606 $aImperialism$xPhilosophy 610 $aBurke. 610 $aDiderot. 610 $aEnlightenment. 610 $aHaiti. 610 $aIndia. 610 $aanticolonial. 610 $acolony. 610 $aempire. 610 $aimperialism. 610 $amodernity. 610 $apost-colonial. 610 $apostcolonial. 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism$xPhilosophy. 676 $a325/.3 700 $aAgnani$b Sunil M$01520786 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788210103321 996 $aHating empire properly$93759559 997 $aUNINA