Three tropes of empire: necessity, spectacle, affection

Hariman, Robert (author)

This essay identifies three recurrent appeals in the discourse of empire. These are presented through explication of Thucydides' last speech to the Athenian demos, a documentary essay by Max Boot, one of the intellectual architects of the invasion of Iraq, and Edmund Burke's speech regarding a colonial insurgency, "On Conciliation with America."

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: Str. 11-26
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-76311
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24643933
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: Trije tropi imperija: nujnost, spektakel, vdanost

Abstract

Članek identificira tri ponavljajoče se apele v imperialnem diskurzu. Predstavljeni so z razlago zadnjega Tukididovega govora Atencem, dokumentarne razprave Maxa Boota, enega izmed duhovnih arhitektov napada na Irak, ter govora Edmunda Burka ob kolonialnem uporu "On Conciliation with America".