Presents William Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. This collection of essays offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of...
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Presents William Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. This collection of essays offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of his contemporaries and succeeding writers
Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-182) and index
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Hazlitt's Essay on the Principlesof Human Action; Introduction; 1 Disinterested Imagining andImpersonal Feeling; 2 Hazlitt and the Idea ofIdentity; 3 'The Future in the Instant'; 4 Hazlitt and the Selfishness ofPassion; 5 Hazlitt and the 'Kings ofSpeech'; 6 The Road to Nether Stowey; 7 One Impulse; 8 Circle of Sympathy; 9 'Darkening Knowledge'; 10 Schelling and Hazlitt onDisinterestedness andFreedom; 11 'A Nature Towards OneAnother'; Notes; Bibliography; Index