John Stuart Mill - A Biography

Klappentext Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. He shows how Mill was groomed for his life by both his father James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham, the two most prominent philosophical radicals of the early nineteenth century. Yet Mill revolted against this education and developed friendships with both Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who introduced him to Romanticism and political conservatism. A special feature of this biography is the attention devoted to his relationship with Harriet Taylor. No one exerted a greater influence than the woman he was eventually to marry. Nicholas Capaldi reveals just how deep her impact was on Mill's thinking about the emancipation of women. Zusammenfassung Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics! epistemology! ethics! social and political philosophy! the philosophy of religion! and the philosophy of education. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Childhood and early education: the great experiment (1806-20); 2. Company man and youthful propaganda (1821-6); 3. Crisis (1826-30); 4. The discovery of romance and romanticism (1830-40); 5. The transitional essays; 6. Intellectual success (1840-5); 7. Worldly success (1846-50); 8. Private years (1850-9); 9. The memorial essays: utilitarianism, representative government, on liberty; 10. Public intellectual (1859-69); 11. Last years (1869-73).

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Capaldi, Capaldi Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2004
• EAN: 9780521620246
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62024-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History of Art, Romanticism, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Art & design styles: Romanticism, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, ART / History / European / Romanticism