A Utopian Radical (Book Review) - Modern Age

A Utopian Radical (Book Review)

By Modern Age

  • Release Date: 2004-01-01
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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John Stuart Mill On Liberty and Control, by Joseph Hamburger, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1999. xviii + 239 pp. JOSEPH HAMBURGER, the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University at the time of his death in 1997, was one of America's most accomplished scholars of nineteenth-century British political thought. He had spent much of his long and productive scholarly life studying the intellectual world of James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and John Austin. (1) In his final book, John Stuart Mill On Liberty and Control, Hamburger has brought this lifetime of learning to an exploration of the sometimes opaque inner teachings of Mill's On Liberty. Situating Mill's argument in this seminal text among his other writings of the period, many published only after Mill's death, as well as in the context of a veritable treasure trove of letters (both to and from him, and among his intimate circle of friends), Hamburger makes sense of what at times seems to be contradictory impulses in On Liberty.

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