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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827258703321

Titolo

Metaphysical Hazlitt : bicentenary essays / / edited by Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, and Duncan Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-30866-3

1-134-30867-1

1-280-37404-7

9786610374045

0-203-42028-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

NatarajanUttara

PaulinTom

WuDuncan

Disciplina

824/.7

Soggetti

Philosophy in literature

Romanticism - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.