On Liberty With Related Documents

by Mill, John Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780312450496
• ISBN10: 0312450494
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319242800
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-02
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This new edition ofOn Libertyis the first to combine John Stuart Mill's influential work with a set of relevant primary sources by Mill and his contemporaries. Alan Kahan's introduction provides students with crucial background on nineteenth-century British politics and society; intriguing biographical details about Mill's early life, intellectual career, and marriage; and thought-provoking discussion of the core issues of autonomy and freedom thatOn Libertyaddresses. The related primary documents including an excerpt from Mill's famous proto-feminist treatiseOn the Subjection of Women offer useful insights into the philosopher's intellectual outlook as well as a fascinating view intoOn Liberty's rather stormy reception. Excerpts from Mill's diary and autobiography, contemporary reviews ofOn Liberty, and appreciations of Mill by his colleagues all deepen students' understanding of this remarkable work and its equally remarkable author. Headnotes and gloss notes to the documents, a selected bibliography, a chronology of Mill's life, and a set of questions for consideration offer additional pedagogical support.

Author Biography

ALAN S. KAHAN (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, and of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. He has translated de Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution, and co-edited The Tocqueville Reader. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Rice University, and Florida International University, and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He is currently working on a book about intellectuals and capitalism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction: John Stuart Mill and His Work	p. 1
Who Was John Stuart Mill?	p. 2
Mill's Childhood and Early Career	p. 3
New Influences on Mill and On Liberty	p. 7
Mill's Later Life	p. 9
On Liberty	p. 10
On Liberty	p. 17
Related Documents	p. 123
John Stuart Mill, Diary, January-April 1854	p. 123
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873	p. 127
John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women, 1869	p. 129
London Quarterly Review, Notice of On Liberty, October 1859	p. 132
Leslie Stephen, Social Macadamization, August 1872	p. 134
Southern Review, Review of On Liberty, July 1867	p. 138
Appendixes
A John Stuart Mill Chronology (1806-1873)	p. 141
Questions for Consideration	p. 143
Selected Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 147
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