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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... effect that humanitarian sensibility depends , in part , on the development of both a feeling of increased links to others and a sense that one has the actual means - techniques , or as Haskell calls them , recipes - with which to help ...
... effect on him , and he spoke with the voice of the moral reformer.13 As I have tried to show , he also spoke with the impassioned tones of his own life experience , and its aspirations for self - development . One result was that , as ...
... effect ? What really happened during John Stuart Mill's mental crisis ? How can we explain satisfactorily the fact that the highly restrained and virtuous John Stuart Mill entered into a shocking relationship with a married woman ? What ...
... effects of which we shall also study later . As for the family , it was either in the process of further giving up its extended kinship nature , and turning into the nuclear family with which we are all so familiar , or of remaining 20 ...
... effects on the relations of its members , some of which we shall seek to study in terms of the Mills . One function the family now took on , more grimly , was the preparation of its children to go out in the world and surpass their own ...