Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense - Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of Power

Zusatztext The book as a whole presents a finely tuned! clearly articulated argument for Hazlitt's consistency as philosopher and critic! remarkable for its erudite and lively engagement with Hazlitt's writings! his contemporary influences! and his critics Klappentext The `only pretension, of which I am tenacious,' declares William Hazlitt in The Plain Speaker, `is that of being a metaphysician'; but his metaphysics, and particularly what this book identifies as his `power principle', has until now been neglected. Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense studies his development of the power principle as a counter to the pleasure principle of the Utilitarians, and examines the revelation of power in his philosophy ofdiscourse, his account of imaginative structure, his theory of genius, and his moral theory. Zusammenfassung This text examines Hazlitt's "metaphysics". Studying his development of the power principle as a counter to the pleasure principle of the Utilitarians, it examines his philosophy of discourse, his account of imaginative structure and of genius, and asserts the tenacity of this principle.

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• Authors: Uttara Natarajan, Uttara (Leverhulme Special Research Fel Natarajan, Uttara (Leverhulme Special Research Fellow Natarajan, Natarajan Uttara, Uttara Natarjan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780198184379
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818437-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, British Isles