James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth CenturyTransaction Publishers, 1988-01-01 - 484 psl. 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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... Bentham , the famous Utilitarian philosopher , James Mill rapidly became a power on his own , writing tracts and books on all aspects of knowledge as well as lending a practical political basis to the doctrine and organizing support for ...
... Bentham's comment that push - pin is as good as poetry ) . [ p . 186 ] Further , we are told that Bazarov " could not endure excursions without a purpose . " [ p . 203 ] He is always talking only about " useful " things ; as he tells ...
... Bentham , and helped to develop on his own . In short , caricature and character , iden- tity and ideology interlocked in a way significant and representative of much that was critical for his entire generation , while intensely per ...
... Bentham seems to be embodied in the characters of Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby ) . Dickens de- scribes Mr. Bounderby as " A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self - made man . A man who was always proclaiming . old ...
... Bentham and became his disciple ; at the same time he began firmly and even publicly to re- nounce his previous religious views . Although he had given up the ministerial career in 1802 , Mill had at first held on to the religion . He ...