Uttara Natarajan is Lecturer in English at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and the author of Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense: Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of Power (1998). >Tom Paulin is G.M. Young Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford and the author of The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style (1998). >Duncan Wu is Professor of English Language and Literature at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols, 1998).

• Introduction, Uttara Natarajan; Part I Foundations; Chapter 1 Disinterested Imagining and Impersonal Feeling, David Bromwich; Chapter 2 Hazlitt and the Idea of Identity, James Mulvihill; Chapter 3 ‘The Future in the Instant’, Philip Davis; Chapter 4 Hazlitt and the Selfishness of Passion, John Whale; Chapter 5 Hazlitt and the ‘Kings of Speech’, Paul Hamilton; Part II Influences; Chapter 6 The Road to Nether Stowey, Duncan Wu; Chapter 7 One Impulse, Tom Paulin; Chapter 8 Circle of Sympathy, Uttara Natarajan; Part III Parallels; Chapter 9 ‘Darkening Knowledge’, Tim Milnes; Chapter 10 Schelling and Hazlitt on Disinterestedness and Freedom, Frederick Burwick; Chapter 11 ‘A Nature Towards One Another’, A.C. Grayling;