On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill; Edited by David Bromwich and George Kateb; With essays by David Bromwich, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, George Kateb, Richard A. Posner, and Jeremy Waldron

• ISBN13: 9780300096101
• ISBN10: 0300096100
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-01-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.

Table of Contents

Editorial Note	ix
A Note on the Life and Thought of John Stuart Mill	1	(27)
David Bromwich
A Reading of On Liberty	28	(41)
George Kateb
On Liberty A Note on the Text	69	(178)
Introductory	73	(13)
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion	86	(35)
Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being	121	(18)
Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual	139	(17)
Applications	156	(91)
Rethinking On Liberty
A Freedom Both Personal and Political	179	(18)
Owen Fiss
On Liberty: A Revaluation	197	(11)
Richard A. Posner
Mill's Liberty and the Problem of Authority	208	(16)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Mill as a Critic of Culture and Society	224	(23)
Jeremy Waldron
Bibliography	247