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Title Metaphysical Hazlitt : bicentenary essays / edited by Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, and Duncan Wu
Published London : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages)
Series Routledge studies in romanticism ; 5
Routledge studies in romanticism ; 5.
Contents Chapter Introduction -- part Part I Foundations -- chapter 1 Disinterested imagining and impersonal feeling / D AV I D BROMWICH -- chapter 2 Hazlitt and the idea of identity JAMES M U LV IHILL -- chapter 3 'The future in the instant': Hazlitt's Essay and Shakespeare PHILIP D AV I S -- chapter 4 Hazlitt and the selfishness of passion / JOHN WHALE -- chapter 5 Hazlitt and the 'kings of speech' PA U L HAMI LT O N -- part Part II Influences -- chapter 6 The Road to Nether Stowey / DUNCAN W U -- chapter 7 One impulse: Hazlitt, Wordsworth and The Principles of Human Action / TOM PA ULIN -- chapter 8 Circle of sympathy: Shelley's Hazlitt U T TA R A N ATA RAJAN -- part Part III Parallels -- chapter 9 'Darkening knowledge': Hazlitt and Bentham on the limits of empiricism / TIM MILNES -- chapter 10 Schelling and Hazlitt on disinterestedness and freedom / FREDERICK B U RW ICK -- chapter 11 'A nature towards one another': Hazlitt and the inherent disinterestedness of moral agency
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 fast
Subject Philosophy in literature.
Romanticism -- England
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Philosophy in literature
Romanticism
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Natarajan, Uttara
Paulin, Tom
Wu, Duncan
LC no. 2004061353
ISBN 0203420284
9780203420287