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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... progress with the change of generations . He thought of such change as occurring in intervals of one generation ( see p . 420 ) . One might quarrel with such precision ; his insight , however , was correct . Generational change allows ...
... progress . The Cambridge - Boston GAP was the first of its kind , soon however to be followed by others scattered around the country . When the American Academy of Arts and Sciences funded a small research project to inquire into the ...
... progress could become too heavy . When added to repression in the area of sex , we have the makings of the famous Victorian ethos . Victims of it became fit subjects to enter the consulting chambers of a Viennese doctor , Sigmund Freud ...
... progress . In the seven- teenth century , the battle of the ancients and the moderns offers the first really impressive victory over the weight of the past . It is a very complicated struggle , with two points of special importance ...
... Progress of the Human Mind merely gave " classic " form to this basic world - view . It must be noted that the progress being talked about was man's progress ; women seem somehow not to figure in the great cosmic drama being enacted on ...