{"title":"Radical Self-education and First Authorship","authors":"Philipp Hunnekuhl","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.10","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter one argues that, between 1790–95, the teenage Robinson was the epitome of the British ‘juvenile enlightenment’ (Kathryn Gleadle). Barred from the English universities because of his Dissenting allegiance – orthodox Presbyterian turning liberal Unitarian – he became, with the help of Colchester Dissenters and their libraries, a self-taught polymath. In early 1795, he published his first article, entitled ‘On the Essential and Accidental Characteristics of Informers’, in the radical Norwich journal The Cabinet. In an original move based on David Hume’s logic and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s approach to the law, Robinson here urges his readers to divert to the law the hatred with which informers (people passing information on to the authorities) are commonly met. This chapter analyses in detail Robinson’s unpublished manuscript diaries and earliest surviving correspondence, and explores the ingenious ways in which he engaged with the on-going ‘Revolution Controversy’ (Marilyn Butler).","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130980731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hazlitt, Napoleon, and Literary Disinterestedness","authors":"Philipp Hunnekuhl","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.14","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter five examines the ‘strong intellectual affinity’ (Uttara Natarajan) between William Hazlitt’s early work and German philosophy, and in particular Kant, in the light of Robinson’s work on the philosopher and the meetings with Hazlitt that Robinson recorded in his unpublished manuscript diaries. Doing so reveals that a paradigm shift – from the imagination establishing disinterestedness diachronically to the ‘formative’, or synthesizing, mind along the lines of Kant – occurred in Hazlitt’s metaphysics around 1806, and that Robinson facilitated this paradigm shift. The chapter then looks at Robinson’s critical transmission of, and preface to, Gustav von Schlabrendorf’s Napoleon, and the French People under His Empire (1806), and how Robinson and Hazlitt began to drift apart as a result of their opposing views on Napoleon and the intensifying war with France. Ultimately, chapter five aims to demonstrate that Robinson’s critical admiration of Hazlitt the writer prevailed in accordance with Robinson’s theoretical principle of ‘Free Moral Discourse’. The originality and stylistic finesse of Hazlitt’s works opened up the kind of ethical discourse whose underlying philosophy – Dissenting disinterestedness amplified by Kant – Robinson continued to share.","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115851247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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