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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... letters and personal comments about it ; but again no public confrontation in print . The only real follow - up on the subject itself was Harold Isaac's article in the magazine , Daedalus.4 For me , the themes of social science ...
... Letter V , no . 1 , ( Fall 1969 ) : 6-9 . ) ( To Mr. Robson's credit , however , it should be noted that he did publish Rohatyn's comment in the News Letter , a nice Mill - like gesture . ) 3. Cf. Arthur Mitzman , The Iron Cage : An ...
... Letter . Some scholars may be disturbed by the fact that we omit whole sections of the Mills ' work on sundry topics : missing from our account , for example , is any systematic treat- ment of such choice items as John Stuart Mill's ...
... letters ; alas , some of those letters have been destroyed or lost , and we must there- fore rely principally on Bain's excerpts.1 Two main reasons account for the paucity of data on James Mill's early life . The first is that he came ...
... letter to one of his father's youthful friends , asking for information to serve for a biography of James in the Encyclopedia Britannica . He asks : The chief points are the r ne and place of his birth ; who and what his parents were ...