Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (Hardcover)

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Review
"An exemplary interdisciplinary work in which aesthetics, ideas, and history are mutually activating..." New Hibernia Review

"This new book on Burke, by Luke Gibbons of Notre Dame University, goes a long way towards resolving the apparent contradictions in Burke's life and towards reconciling the ambiguities in his legacy...[A] bracing read and a signal achievement with much that is new to say..." Irish Times

"Gibbons provides a cogent and nuanced account of Burke's particular contribution to theories of sensibility, as well as a compelling examination of the role of sensibility within Enlightenment thought in general and the politics of the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the colonial and assimilatory pressures within the British Isles. Edmund Burke and Ireland is essential reading for anyone grappling with the complexity of Burkean affect and, more broadly, with the stresses and strains between Englightenment thought and eighteenth-century colonial practices." - Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Julia Wright, Wilfrid Laurier University

"This book is altogether engaging, enlightening, and fundamentally correct with respect to a contemporary post-modern application of Burke."
Michael F. Deckard, Catholic University of Leuven

Product Description
Burke's influential early writings on aesthetic are intimately connected to his political concerns according to this study of his engagement with Irish politics and culture. The heart of his aesthetic addressed itself to the experience of terror, a spectre that haunts Burke's political imagination throughout his career. Burke's preoccupation with violence, sympathy and pain actually allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment. This major reassessment of a key political and cultural figure appeals to Irish studies specialists, political theorists and Romanticists.

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In one of the many mischievous asides in what may justly be seen as the anarchist's cookbook of nineteenth-century Ireland, Thomas Moore's Memoirs of Captain Rock, the notorious Captain informs us that the date of his birth, 15 March 1766, was a portent of the misfortunes which were to befall his native land. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sympathetic sublime, colonial sublime, sympathetic contagion, exemplary events, imperfect obligation, aesthetic writings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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