In the Company
of William Hazlitt
Thoughts for the 21st
Century
by Maurice
Whelan
Hazlitt is presented here as a great investigator of the inner world and
as a precursor to Freud, but also as going beyond the founder of psychoanalysis
and anticipating modern developments in that field.
The author argues strongly for Hazlitt to be taken seriously as a thinker
and writer of extraordinary relevance to our present world, a true spirit
for our age. In his own lifetime and since, he was regarded as one of the
greatest writers of prose in the English language, yet he was a thorn in the
side of the establishment: opposing slavery, critical of Wordworth's poetry
glorifying war, defending civil liberties, arguing against the British dispossession
of Ireland and for Catholic Emancipation.
A quote: "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power
is the love of ourselves".
234x156mm, ix+206pp, includes notes, bibliography, index.
£16.95 approx.
ISBN. 0850365538
Paperback