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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... tion . Part of my support at the Institute was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant GS - 31730X1 , and I would like grate- fully to acknowledge it . Anna Marie Holt , who headed the secretarial staff of the Social ...
... tion of these instincts is extremely plastic , and largely controlled by culture . The cultural cues are something that must be learned by each individual . They are learned through " symbolic " rather than genetic inheritance ...
... tion's experience . As key figures in the political and intellectual changes of their time , both father and son become prototypic protag- onists in what Freud was later to call the Oedipal conflict . They allow us to see not only into ...
... tion . All fathers and all sons , presumably , had to encounter one an- other in this conflict , irrespective of the historical period or society in which they found themselves . The intensity and the resolution might be different , but ...
... tion of adult life . As we shall see later , this population change brought to the fore the entire question of birth control and sexual relations . But for our immediate purposes , the important aspect of this population change lay in ...