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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... took an interest in the matter . The immediate result , a divertissment from my epical Mill work , was a short book , In Search of Nixon . Published as it was in 1972 , it " found him " before Watergate . His subsequent confession in ...
... took was in a heightened sense of father - son , i.e. , generational , conflict.2 Much attention has been given , and rightly so , to class conflict at this time as a mechanism of social change . I am suggesting that genera- tional ...
... took up the subject , then , he was hardly the first to notice the phenomenon . His unique contribution was to encase the father - son conflict in the amber of scientific concept , by elaborating the notion of an Oedipus complex . In ...
... took on , more grimly , was the preparation of its children to go out in the world and surpass their own parents ; the nuclear family , giving up many of its previous formal educational functions , took on with a vengeance the task of ...
... took his own inner life as a prime subject for his work . Others , such as Charcot and Breuer , helped to prepare the way , but one has the feeling that only the happy accident of a Freud , able to combine their scientific interests ...