James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth CenturyTransaction Publishers, 1988 M01 1 - 484 páginas The story of James and John Stuart Mill is one of the great dramas of the 19thcentury. In the tense yet loving struggle of this extraordinarily influential father and son, we can see the genesis of evolution of Liberal ideas-about love, sex, and women, wealth and work, authority and rebellion-which ushered in the modern age. The result of more than a decade of research and reflection, this is a study of the relationship between James Mill, the self-made utilitarian philosopher who tried (with only partial success) to shape his son in his own image. Mazlish integrates psychology and intellectual history as part of his larger and continuing effort to spur deeper understanding of the character, limitations, and possibilities of the social sciences. John Stuart Mill's rebellion against a joyless, loveless upbringing, one in strict accordance with the principles of Utilitarianism, was rooted ina powerful Oedipal struggle against his father's authority. Mazlish describes this rebellion as playing an important role in the genesis of classical nineteenth century liberalism. Behind this intellectual development were the women in Mills' life: Harriet the mother, never mentioned by her son in his autobiography, and Harriet Taylor, with whom Mill lived in a scandalous, if chaste, ménage a trois. It was this long relationship which informed his famous essay â The Subjection of Women,â one of the most eloquent feminist statements ever written. A work of brilliant historical research and psychological insights, James and John Stuart Mill shows how the nineteenth-century struggle of fathers and sons shaped the social transformation of society. |
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... early draft , he had devoted four or five pages to her , highly critical , and then discarded them . " Why ? " , I asked . And what did all this signify , if anything , for his views on women ? I was off and running . From that moment ...
... early intellectual development . After this , we have separate chapters on his involvement with Harriet Taylor , who presents in flesh and blood terms the problems of sex and women , which Mill will then etherealize and make abstract in ...
... early twentieth centuries , the Western imagination became almost compulsively concerned with the conflict of fathers and sons . In com- parison with , say , Turgenev's Fathers and Sons ( 1861 ) , or Edmund Gosse's Father and Son ( 1907 ) ...
... early nineteenth century , causing severe depression and anxiety in those who , like Mill , went further in their rebellions . For Wolf , how- ever , Mill is only a transitional figure . Gradually , some sons went even further , and the ...
... early twentieth century ) . Somewhere between the late eighteenth and early nine- teenth centuries , sons began to adopt a different posture toward their fathers ( and therefore mothers ? ) . The Oedipus complex was handled at first in ...