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Autobiography (Paperback): John Robson, John Stuart Mill

Autobiography (Paperback)

John Robson, John Stuart Mill

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At three years old John Stuart Mill was studying arithmetic and Greek; by the time he was six he was enjoying Hume and Gibbon and writing Roman histories.

Diffident, intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became one of the greatest of the Victorian liberals and his works - particularly On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography - are among the crowning achievements of the age.

'Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so . . .' Central to the Autobiography is Mill's moving account of the mental crisis he suffered as a young man, and his discovery of a world of feeling and emotion that drew him away from Benthamite utilitarianism and his father's ambitions for him and towards the Romantic radicalism of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Comte and Saint-Simon. The tension between thought and feeling, the struggle to improve the individual and society, preoccupied Mill all his life and imbue his Autobiography with enduring integrity and power.

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Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 1989
First published: April 1990
Authors: John Robson • John Stuart Mill
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043316-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
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LSN: 0-14-043316-3
Barcode: 9780140433166

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