J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations / Edition 1

by B. Kinzer

Overview

Bruce Kinzer offers a rich examination of personal and political themes in the life of the most influential liberal thinker of the Nineteenth century. He investigates young Mill's formative period and his relations with his father, Harriet Taylor, and Thomas Carlyle. Kinzer explores issues that bear upon our understanding of Mill as an engaged political thinker and actor and offers a complex portrait of Mill's life and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403980687
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/17/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

BRUCE L. KINZER is Professor of History, Kenyon College, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction Father, Son, and Manly Spirit Gathering Truths, 1826-1830 Mill and Harriet Taylor: The Early Years Mystifying the Mystic: Mill and Carlyle in the 1830s Mill and the Secret Ballot Mill and the Problem of Party Mill and the Experience of Political Engagement

Editorial Reviews

"Insightfully rich." - Victorian Studies

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