John Stuart Mill
A Biography
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 12 January 2004
- ISBN 9780521620246
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages458 pages
- Size 235x163x36 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A biography of John Stuart Mill, the most influential British philosopher of the nineteenth century.
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Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. He shows how Mill was groomed for his life by both his father James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham, the two most prominent philosophical radicals of the early nineteenth century. Yet Mill revolted against this education and developed friendships with both Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who introduced him to Romanticism and political conservatism. A special feature of this biography is the attention devoted to his relationship with Harriet Taylor. No one exerted a greater influence than the woman he was eventually to marry. Nicholas Capaldi reveals just how deep her impact was on Mill's thinking about the emancipation of women.
Review of the hardback: 'The weaving together of ideas with accounts of personal life and historical events brings to life Mill's views, makes his ideas more engaging and is a particularly effective way of securing a deeper understanding of both the man and the values and interests which dominated his life.' C. L. Ten, The National University of Singapore
Table of Contents:
1. Childhood and early education: the great experiment (1806-20); 2. Company man and youthful propaganda (1821-6); 3. Crisis (1826-30); 4. The discovery of romance and romanticism (1830-40); 5. The transitional essays; 6. Intellectual success (1840-5); 7. Worldly success (1846-50); 8. Private years (1850-9); 9. The memorial essays: utilitarianism, representative government, on liberty; 10. Public intellectual (1859-69); 11. Last years (1869-73).
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