Edmund Burke and Ireland

副标题: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime

ISBN: 9780521810609

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2003-12-08

页数: 320

定价: USD 75.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.