“The bourgeois nature in difficulties”: The crisis of liberalism in Robert Browning's Aristophanes’ Apology
Nathan K. Hensley's recent study, Forms of Empire (2016), posits that liberalism, as the nineteenth century progressed, came up against the “wayward meanings” generated by its own contradictions, particularly the “curious intimacy between legality and harm” that characterized a doctrine of indi...
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2020
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| description | Nathan K. Hensley's recent study, Forms of Empire (2016), posits that liberalism, as the nineteenth century progressed, came up against the “wayward meanings” generated by its own contradictions, particularly the “curious intimacy between legality and harm” that characterized a doctrine of individual freedom inextricably rooted in violent imperial expansion. For Hensley, “the dogged persistence of killing in an age of liberty disrupted the conceptual assumptions of progressive idealism”; while “the very inseparability of law and violence, never more painfully evident than in episodes of colonial war and legal emergency, collapsed the logical principles of non-contradiction and identity that remain our common sense.” |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:084f5ce3-f7ae-4cb8-860e-fb4eb713d16e2022-03-26T09:12:15Z“The bourgeois nature in difficulties”: The crisis of liberalism in Robert Browning's Aristophanes’ ApologyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:084f5ce3-f7ae-4cb8-860e-fb4eb713d16eEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordCambridge University Press2020Hankinson, JNathan K. Hensley's recent study, Forms of Empire (2016), posits that liberalism, as the nineteenth century progressed, came up against the “wayward meanings” generated by its own contradictions, particularly the “curious intimacy between legality and harm” that characterized a doctrine of individual freedom inextricably rooted in violent imperial expansion. For Hensley, “the dogged persistence of killing in an age of liberty disrupted the conceptual assumptions of progressive idealism”; while “the very inseparability of law and violence, never more painfully evident than in episodes of colonial war and legal emergency, collapsed the logical principles of non-contradiction and identity that remain our common sense.” |
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