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Informationen zum Autor Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 (Cambridge, 2010) and Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism (Cambridge, 1989). He also edited The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2011) with Gareth Stedman Jones, and The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge, 2010). Klappentext Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domestic issues like land reform, Mill proposed a substantially more interventionist account of the state than On Liberty seems to imply. This helps to explain Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, as well as his Malthusianism and feminism, which, in conjunction with Harriet Taylor's views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is shown to provide the answer to the problem which most agitated Mill, overpopulation. Thus Gregory Claeys sheds new lights on many of Mill's overarching preoccupations, including the theory of liberty at the heart of On Liberty. Zusammenfassung Giving prominence for the first time to Mill's abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his key arguments respecting liberty! Mill and Paternalism explores Mill's strong commitment to population control! popular education! feminism and the leading role of intellectual elites! alongside his overarching interests in both liberty and equality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Mill, liberty, and paternalism: context, intention and interpretation; 1. Intervention, progress and the state - domestic and foreign; 2. Mill, socialism and collective autonomy; 3. Rethinking On Liberty: superstition, expediency, and family values; Conclusion: the aims of liberty and paternalism: equal association and radical meritocracy....
