More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after
the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart
Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the
Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of
the philosophical legacy of Mill's arguments, his complex version
of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character
and ethical and political commitment. Bringing together key
international and interdisciplinary scholars, including Martha
Nussbaum and Peter Singer, this book combines the latest insights
of Mill scholarship with a long-term appraisal of the ways in which
Mill's work has been received and interpreted from the time of his
death in 1873 to today.
The book offers compelling insights into Mill's posthumous fate
and reputation; his youthful political and intellectual activism;
his views on the formation of character; the development of his
thought on logic; his differences from his father and Bentham; his
astonishingly prescient, environmentally sensitive and 'green'
thought; his relation to virtue ethics; his conception of higher
pleasures and its relation to his understanding of justice; his
feminist thought and its place in contemporary debates and feminist
discourses; his defence of free speech and its fundamental
significance for his liberalism; and his continued contemporary
relevance on a number of major issues.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
Politics, Political Theory, Philosophy, History, English,
Psychology, and also Cultural Studies, Empire studies, nationalism
and ethnicity studies.
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