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The Quarrel Of The Age - The Life And Times Of William Hazlitt

Name: The Quarrel Of The Age
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: A.C. Grayling
ISBN: 9781780226798

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A.C. Grayling

Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Paru le : 24/07/2013

The story of the life and work of England's greatest essayist and key figure in Regency England. William Hazlitt is England's greatest essayist. He was... > Lire la suite

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The story of the life and work of England's greatest essayist and key figure in Regency England. William Hazlitt is England's greatest essayist. He was also a philosopher, a painter, a controversialist and a radical, whose critical writings about literature, the theatre and art were ardently admired in his day. He is the author of the first confessional autobiography of sexual passion, a biographer of Napoleon, a friend of, and profound influence upon, Keats, Stendhal, and Charles Lamb, a friend and later enemy of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and De Quincy, and a key figure in the intellectual life of Regency England.
His life was lived against the backdrop of the French Revolution and subsequent Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with their associated political and literary radicalism in England.

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Date de parution : 24/07/2013
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 978-1-78022-679-8
EAN : 9781780226798
Format : ePub

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Biographie d'A.C. Grayling

A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has written and edited many books, both scholarly and for a general readership, and has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news.
He is a former Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, Patron of the UK Armed Forces Humanist association, Patron of Dignity in Dying, a former Booker Prize Judge, a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society, a member of the human rights group IHEU represented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva; and much more.