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The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte (Paperback)
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The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte (Paperback)
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This volume presents eighty-nine letters exchanged between John
Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte between 1841 and 1847. They address
important issues of the mid-nineteenth century in philosophy,
science, economics, and politics. Cumulatively, these letters
provide a humanistic view of Western Europe and its social
problems. They add valuable perspective to what we know about the
work of Mill and Comte, in a critical period of English and French
thought. The correspondence begins with an admiring letter from
Mill who considers himself a positivist at the tune and writes to
Comte as to an elder colleague. A close friendship developed, in
the course of which they discussed matters of common concern. Their
understanding extends to personal experiences, including their
respective mental crises at an early age. The opinions expressed
about their contemporaries are significant and include comments on
Thomas Carlyle, John and Sarah Austin, and Alexander Bain, on
philosophers and major authors in France, Germany, and Italy. Mill
and Comte eventually encountered issues on which they could not
come to consensus, especially the equality of women. While Mill was
an ardent defender of women's rights, Comte supported the
traditional hierarchy that endowed men with social and political
superiority. According to Jerome H. Buckley, Gurner Professor of
English Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, "The
correspondence of Mill and Comte, now available for the first time
in English translation, is a remarkable intellectual exchange, a
dialogue of real significance in the history of ideas." This volume
will be of great interest to philosophers, historians, economists,
women's studies scholars, and political scientists.
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