Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense: Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of PowerUttara Natarajan studies Hazlitt's development of the power principle as a counter to the pleasure principle of the Utilitarians, examining the revelation of power in his philosophy of discourse, his account of imaginative structure, his theory of genius, and his moral theory. |
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... conversational prose . Hazlitt's philosophical endeavour is in- extricably involved with the enterprise of writing itself ; the range of his writings gives us his philosophy as a totality . Simply put , Hazlitt's philosophical thesis is ...
... conversational prose . Hazlitt's philosophical endeavour is in- extricably involved with the enterprise of writing itself ; the range of his writings gives us his philosophy as a totality . Simply put , Hazlitt's philosophical thesis is ...
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... conversational ' ( viii . 333 ) .15 What he is referring to is the shift from the descriptive or expository procedure of the early essays to the method of narrative , and therefore to a foregrounding of the essayist as narrator . This ...
... conversational ' ( viii . 333 ) .15 What he is referring to is the shift from the descriptive or expository procedure of the early essays to the method of narrative , and therefore to a foregrounding of the essayist as narrator . This ...
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... conversational essays is not based , primar- ily , on the chronological growth and development of ideas over time . Rather , it is a pattern that manifests development in the other sense of the word , the amplification or detailed ...
... conversational essays is not based , primar- ily , on the chronological growth and development of ideas over time . Rather , it is a pattern that manifests development in the other sense of the word , the amplification or detailed ...
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