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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... women . I suspect it is the second- rate people of the two sexes that are unlike the first - rate are alike in both — except —no , I do not think I can except anything — but then , in this respect , my position has been and is , what ...
... women with the interest this might have for women's studies . There is the theme of modernization and economic development , strong in both practice and theory in James Mill and then carried on , conceptually , in his son's Principles ...
... women's movement , never once mentioned his mother . Further research showed that , in an early draft , he had devoted four or five pages to her , highly critical , and then discarded them . " Why ? " , I asked . And what did all this ...
... women's movement , one part of women's liberation , with its frequently inchoate longings and group spirit , has threatened to replace what Mill would have regarded as proper liberty . Where altruism once prevailed , with all its ...
... Women , which , with the advent of Women's Liber- ation , is also rapidly becoming a popular classic . With this said , however , one might still wonder what importance the two men together might have , aside from their works , read or ...