A Metaphysical Discovery
Jonathan Ree on how Hazlitt spent much of his 20s leading a self-conscious life as a 'solitary thinker', which resulted in his challenge to received ideas about personal identity.
Series of talks arguing that William Hazlitt was a committed philosopher as well as a great essayist. Historian Jonathan Ree reveals how Hazlitt spent much of his 20s leading a self-conscious life as a 'solitary thinker'. It resulted in what the essayist always regarded as his greatest intellectual achievement - a challenge to received ideas about personal identity.
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- Thu 5 Mar 200923:00BBC Radio 3
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