John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control - Rilegato

Hamburger, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0691007179 ISBN 13: 9780691007175

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments inOn Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals.

Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian.

Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
"A clear, well-documented, and persuasive book. . . . At stake is nothing less than a recasting of the role of Mill's philosophy in relationship to liberalism."--Choice

"In this final publication Hamburger has left a challenging scholarly legacy that deserves inclusion in all future discussions of John Stuart Mill and twentieth-century liberalism."--Joseph Farry, Perspectives on Political Science

"Clear, well-documented, and persuasive."--Choice

Contenuti

EDITOR'S NOTE ix
PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
CHAPTER ONE Liberty and Control 3
CHAPTER TWO Cultural Reform 18
CHAPTER THREE Mill and Christianity 42
CHAPTER FOUR Candor or Concealment 55
CHAPTER FIVE Arguments about Christianity in On Liberty 86
CHAPTER SIX The Religion of Humanity 108
CHAPTER SEVEN Individuality and Moral Reform 149
CHAPTER EIGHT How Much Liberty? 166
CHAPTER NINE Mill's Rhetoric 203
EPILOGUE 225
INDEX 235

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691007179
• ISBN 13: 9780691007175
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 239
• Contatto del produttore: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; U.S.A.
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile