James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth CenturyTransaction Publishers, 1988/01/01 - 484 ページ The story of James and John Stuart Mill is one of the great dramas of the 19thcentury. In the tense yet loving struggle of this extraordinarily influential father and son, we can see the genesis of evolution of Liberal ideas-about love, sex, and women, wealth and work, authority and rebellion-which ushered in the modern age. The result of more than a decade of research and reflection, this is a study of the relationship between James Mill, the self-made utilitarian philosopher who tried (with only partial success) to shape his son in his own image. Mazlish integrates psychology and intellectual history as part of his larger and continuing effort to spur deeper understanding of the character, limitations, and possibilities of the social sciences. John Stuart Mill's rebellion against a joyless, loveless upbringing, one in strict accordance with the principles of Utilitarianism, was rooted ina powerful Oedipal struggle against his father's authority. Mazlish describes this rebellion as playing an important role in the genesis of classical nineteenth century liberalism. Behind this intellectual development were the women in Mills' life: Harriet the mother, never mentioned by her son in his autobiography, and Harriet Taylor, with whom Mill lived in a scandalous, if chaste, ménage a trois. It was this long relationship which informed his famous essay â The Subjection of Women,â one of the most eloquent feminist statements ever written. A work of brilliant historical research and psychological insights, James and John Stuart Mill shows how the nineteenth-century struggle of fathers and sons shaped the social transformation of society. |
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... example , I deliberately tried to test the applicability of orthodox , classical Freudian theories and concepts in my book on the two Mills . I wished to exhaust the possibilities in one way of proceeding , to see its powers and ...
... example , defending two books dealing with Mill from Mr. Robson's ire , noted Mr. Robson's intolerance for the accusation of inconsistency flung at Mill , argued that his " indignation is uncalled for , " and concluded , " There is room ...
... example , my most recent ms . , The Unchaining of Modern Man : Self , Society , and the Cash Nexus ( forthcoming ) , concerns the omnipresent sense of breakdown in connections experienced by Western Man at the time of the French and ...
... example , our next chap- ter will offer a macroscopic speculation about the nature of the Oedi- pus complex in the whole of the nineteenth century . At the other extreme , when we come to our detailed account of Mill's mental crisis ...