Metaphysical Hazlitt

Uttara Natarajan is Lecturer in English at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and the author of Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense: Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of Power (1998). >Tom Paulin is G.M. Young Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford and the author of The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style (1998). >Duncan Wu is Professor of English Language and Literature at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols, 1998).

• Introduction, Uttara Natarajan; Part I Foundations; Chapter 1 Disinterested Imagining and Impersonal Feeling, David Bromwich; Chapter 2 Hazlitt and the Idea of Identity, James Mulvihill; Chapter 3 ‘The Future in the Instant’, Philip Davis; Chapter 4 Hazlitt and the Selfishness of Passion, John Whale; Chapter 5 Hazlitt and the ‘Kings of Speech’, Paul Hamilton; Part II Influences; Chapter 6 The Road to Nether Stowey, Duncan Wu; Chapter 7 One Impulse, Tom Paulin; Chapter 8 Circle of Sympathy, Uttara Natarajan; Part III Parallels; Chapter 9 ‘Darkening Knowledge’, Tim Milnes; Chapter 10 Schelling and Hazlitt on Disinterestedness and Freedom, Frederick Burwick; Chapter 11 ‘A Nature Towards One Another’, A.C. Grayling;