Hegel and Empire

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Offering a concise introduction not only to an important dimension of Hegels thought - his orientation towards empire - but also to the various issues raised by postcolonial theory and global studies Provides a clear and nuanced appraisal of Hegels treatment of non-European cultures and of the implications of this treatment for postcolonial and global studies Analyses indepth readings of Hegel by postcolonial critics, exploring both the Eurocentric and potentially global nature of his dialectic

Autorenportrait

M.A.R. Habib is Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA, and currently Visiting Professor at the Gulf University of Science and Technology in Kuwait. He is the author of A History of Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present (2005) and Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory (2018). 

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