EAN: 9783319542799

CAMBRIDGE IMPERIAL AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES ...

This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals
it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on
imperial agents  their narratives of progress  and their political aims and strategies  it asks
whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new colonialism between 1760 and 1820.Has Enlightenment
provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For decades  historians
of political thought  philosophy  and literature have debated this question. On one side  many
postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped delegitimize non-European
cultures. On the other side  some historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at
least some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have been anti-colonialists.
Surprisingly enough  both sides have focused on literary and philosophical texts  but have
rarely taken political and social practice into account.

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