J S Mill Revisited - Biographical and Political Explorations

Zusatztext "Insightfully rich." - Victorian Studies Informationen zum Autor BRUCE L. KINZER is Professor of History, Kenyon College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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"Insightfully rich." - Victorian Studies

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• Authors: B Kinzer, B. Kinzer, Bruce L. Kinzer
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9781403980687
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8068-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; B, History, Ethics, European History, Political Science, Philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave History Collection, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Europe—History, experience;John Stuart Mill;politics;truth;understanding