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Edmund Burke and Ireland

Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime

Edmund Burke and Ireland( )
Author: Gibbons, Luke
ISBN:978-0-521-10094-6
Publication Date:Feb 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $66.95
Book Description:

This study of Burke's engagement with Irish politics and culture argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetic are intimately connected to his political concerns. The concept of the sublime, at 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 allowed him to explore the dark side of the Enlightenment. This major...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Political
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm
Book Weight:0.473 Kilograms



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