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The Essay - William Hazlitt - Philosopher - Hazlitt and the Fate of Modern Philosophy

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Series of talks arguing that William Hazlitt was a committed philosopher as well as a great essayist. Historian Jonathan Ree explores how Hazlitt, once a committed believer in rational Christianity and political radicalism, soon came to question all the main tenets of 'modern philosophy', preferring doubt to certainty.