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Colonial exchanges : Political theory and the agency of the colonized /
Scholars of political thought have given a great deal of attention to the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, especially to whether prominent thinkers supported or opposed colonialism. But little attention has so far been given to the reactions of those in the colonies to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: when ideas travel: political theory, colonialism, and the history of ideas; Parochial universalisms; Engaged political theory; Situating the volume; An overview of the chapters; Notes; 1 Intellectual flows and counterflows: the strange case of J.S. Mill; J.S. Mill EinfÃơhlung; J.S. Mill and Rammohun Roy; Conclusion: an unfinished project; Abbreviations; Notes; 2 Rethinking resistance: Spencer, Krishnavarma, and The Indian Sociologist.
- 1 Intellectual foundations2 Moderates, extremists, and terrorists: Krishnavarma and the nationalist constellation; (i) The unknown patriot;; (ii) The nationalist constellation I: moderates; (iii) The nationalist constellation II: extremists and terrorists; 3 A state of violence: Spencer, sociology, and the sentimental foundations of empire; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The other Mahatma's naive monarchism: Phule, Paine, and the appeal to Queen Victoria; Slaveries and conquests; Paine in Phule's Indian context; The British: better invaders?; Supplication, sentimentality, and the Queen.
- Between critique and catachresisNotes; 4 The New World 'sans-culottes': French revolutionary ideology in Saint-Domingue; The revolutions in Saint-Domingue and France; How radical were the French revolutionaries?; 1802, the fall of Charles Bélair and the rise of Dessalines; Haiti and the problem of institutional teleology; Notes; 5 Confronting colonial otherness: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the limits ... ; A hegemonic and contested universalism; The universalist premise of the JCPC; Justice, equity, and good conscience; The limits of judicial universalism.
- Universality, representation, and legitimacyNotes; 6 The Indigenous redemption of liberal universalism; Christianity, liberalism, and racism; Peter Jones 1802â#x80;#x93;53: gaining mastery over fate; The challenge of Social Darwinism;; Charles Eastman 1858-1939: the Indian renewed; Warriors for empire and democracy: Apirana Ngata and Zitkala-Å a; William Cooper: British Aborigines?; Conclusion: the mobile signifiers of universality; Notes; 7 Troubling appropriations: Pedro Paterno's Filipino deployment of French Lamarckianism; Ilustrados worlds.
- Paterno's ways of conceiving of civilization as successive eras Paterno's race thinking and its French antecedents; Not ancestors, but specimens; Conclusion: futures of the past; Notes; 8 Colonial hesitation, appropriation, and citation Qasim Amin, empire, and saying 'no'; Saying 'no' and colonised thought; Theorising colonised reception; The politics of audience and persuasion; Defensive postures and blaming others: a Francophone audience; Aggressive postures and aggression by nature: Cairo I; Inventing Islam, disaggregating Europe: Cairo II.