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Author : Duncan Ivison
Release : 2002-11-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Liberalism by : Duncan Ivison
Download or read book Postcolonial Liberalism written by Duncan Ivison. This book was released on 2002-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of postcolonial liberalism, and argues the case for its sustainability.
Author : Lisandro E. Claudio
Release : 2017-03-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Liberalism and the Postcolony by : Lisandro E. Claudio
Download or read book Liberalism and the Postcolony written by Lisandro E. Claudio. This book was released on 2017-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the role of liberal philosophy in the building of a new nation. It examines the role of toleration, rights, and mediation in the postcolony. Through the biographies of four Filipino scholar-bureaucrats—Camilo Osias, Salvador Araneta, Carlos P. Romulo, and Salvador P. Lopez—Lisandro E. Claudio argues that liberal thought served as the grammar of Filipino democracy in the 20th century. By looking at various articulations of liberalism in pedagogy, international affairs, economics, and literature, Claudio not only narrates an obscured history of the Philippine state, he also argues for a new liberalism rooted in the postcolonial experience, a timely intervention considering current developments in politics in Southeast Asia.
Author : Terence C. Halliday
Release : 2012-02-13
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony by : Terence C. Halliday
Download or read book Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony written by Terence C. Halliday. This book was released on 2012-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of political liberalism in the British post-colonies.
Author : Uday Singh Mehta
Release : 2018-06-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Liberalism and Empire by : Uday Singh Mehta
Download or read book Liberalism and Empire written by Uday Singh Mehta. This book was released on 2018-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.
Author : David Williams
Release : 2021-01-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Progress, Pluralism, and Politics by : David Williams
Download or read book Progress, Pluralism, and Politics written by David Williams. This book was released on 2021-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities. In Progress, Pluralism, and Politics David Williams examines the colonial and anti-colonial arguments of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and L.T. Hobhouse. Williams locates their ambivalent attitude towards European conquest and colonial rule in a set of tensions between the impact of colonialism on European states, the possibilities of progress in distant and diverse places, and the relationship between universalism and cultural pluralism. In so doing he reveals some of the central ambiguities that characterize the ways that liberal thought has dealt with the reality of an illiberal world. Of particular importance are appeals to various forms of universal history, attempts to mediate between the claims of identity and the reality of difference, and the different ways of thinking about the achievement of liberal goods in other places. Pointing to key elements in still ongoing debates within liberal states about how they should relate to illiberal places, Progress, Pluralism, and Politics enriches the discussion on political thought and the relationship between liberalism and colonialism.
