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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... thought of such change as occurring in intervals of one generation ( see p . 420 ) . One might quarrel with such precision ; his insight , however , was correct . Generational change allows for both intellectual and social inheritance ...
... thought important in the case of the Mills , and which transcend them , perhaps readers can travel along these roads with a better idea of ultimate destinations . 2 As psychohistory , narrowly conceived , my book certainly got attention ...
... thought , of psychohistory . Mill could find place for them in his version of Utilitarianism . This marked a major separation from his father and his father's past . Thus , my study of the Mills was also a study of two stages in the ...
... thought and feeling , the " rational " and the seeming " irrational . " In the synthesis that he now painstakingly constructed , he forged a new and much broader definition of liberalism than was envisioned in his father's con- stricted ...