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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... relations of the two make up one of the great father and son stories of the nineteenth century . It is in these terms that we shall deal with the case of James and John Stuart Mill ; for us , however , the unnamed mother , epitomizing ...
... relations , specifi- cally the father - son conflict encased in the concept of the Oedipus complex . We are starting from the view that man , though an animal with " instincts , " has few that are invariant . The direction and satisfac ...
... relations . In the nineteenth century the most dramatic form this 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 ...
... relation- ship . First we deal with James Mill , and this time we give a detailed analysis of his life , seen especially from a psychological perspective . Next we turn to his life work , and devote separate chapters to his conceptions ...