The bourgeois nature in difficulties ”
The Crisis of Liberalism in Robert Browning's Aristophanes’ Apology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411739 |
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| Authors | J Hankinson (0000-0001-8905-2218, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 551-575 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150319000172 |
| OpenAlex | W3047169388 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
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.”
Bourgeoisie · Contradiction · Doctrine · Epistemology · Idealism · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Theology · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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