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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... liberalism , a subject that occupied so central a place in his speculations and whose parlous conditions is so important to our own time . 1 In suggesting that I would write a review of my own book , I was not entirely serious . What I ...
... liberalism , as an ideology , are consequential , and still hold significance for us today . Both character and creed changed , as I have tried to show . James Mill had also held liberal beliefs , but held them on narrow Utilitarian ...
... liberalism embodied one major change from that of his father's , and thereby both shaped and reflected the liberalism of his own generation . It assumed that economic development , i.e. , prosperity , would lead to greater emotional ...
... liberalism from re - awakened feelings . The discovery of Nietzschean instinctual desires was deeply disturbing to the belief in reasoned feelings underpinning the liberal ideology . It was not that middle - class elite thinkers had not ...
... Liberalism : The Case of John Stuart Mill ( N.Y .: Secker and Warberg , 1974 ) . Alan Ryan , in The American ... liberal - minded John Stuart Mill is hard to imagine . 14. See again footnote 12. While John Stuart Mill was ...