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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This book combines an assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill’s arguments with an assessment of Mill’s complex and fecund version of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character and ethical and political commitment.
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1. John Stuart Mill’s Thought and Legacy: A Timely Reappraisal 2. The Primacy of the Political and the Problem of Cultural Authority in an Age of Transition 3. Competing Theories of Character Formation: James vs. John Stuart Mill 4. Wild Natural Beauty and the Religion of Humanity: Mill’s ‘Green’ Credentials 5. Parallel Lives in Logic: the Benthams and the Mills 6. John Stuart Mill and Virtue Ethics 7. Justice as Higher Pleasure 8. Mill’s Feminism: Liberal, Radical, and Queer 9. Liberalism as Free Thought 10. Mill’s Relevance Today: A Personal View
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ISBN
9781138874190
Publisert
2015-04-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
294 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
182