Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himse…
Want to Read $ 15.37"This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"[The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized. The dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"[The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized. The dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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