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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... instance the qualification in his praise of Butler's Sermons in a note to the Remarks on the Systems of Hartley and Helvetius : ' After Berkeley's Essay on Vision , I do not know of any work better worth the attention of those who would ...
... instance the qualification in his praise of Butler's Sermons in a note to the Remarks on the Systems of Hartley and Helvetius : ' After Berkeley's Essay on Vision , I do not know of any work better worth the attention of those who would ...
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... instance , in the Round Table essay on The Excursion , we will find in the second an acknowledgement of exactly the subjection described in the first : ' The poem . . . has . . overwhelming , oppressive power . . . . We are surrounded ...
... instance , in the Round Table essay on The Excursion , we will find in the second an acknowledgement of exactly the subjection described in the first : ' The poem . . . has . . overwhelming , oppressive power . . . . We are surrounded ...
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... instance , the passage on the poetical character in the letter to Woodhouse cited previously may be traced to the following extract from Hazlitt's essay ' On Post- humous Fame ' : ' He seemed scarcely to have an individual existence of ...
... instance , the passage on the poetical character in the letter to Woodhouse cited previously may be traced to the following extract from Hazlitt's essay ' On Post- humous Fame ' : ' He seemed scarcely to have an individual existence of ...
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