On Liberty

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This new edition of On Liberty is the first to combine John Stuart Mill’s influential work with a set of relevant primary sources by Mill and his contemporaries. Alan Kahan’s introduction provides students with crucial background on nineteenth-century British politics and society; intriguing biographical details about Mill’s early life, intellectual career, and marriage; and thought-provoking discussion of the core issues of autonomy and freedom that On Liberty addresses. The related primary documents — including an excerpt from Mill’s famous proto-feminist treatise On the Subjection of Women — offer useful insights into the philosopher’s intellectual outlook as well as a fascinating view into On Liberty’s rather stormy reception. Excerpts from Mill’s diary and autobiography, contemporary reviews of On Liberty, and appreciations of Mill by his colleagues all deepen students’ understanding of this remarkable work and its equally remarkable author. Headnotes and gloss notes to the documents, a selected bibliography, a chronology of Mill’s life, and a set of questions for consideration offer additional pedagogical support.

Content Material

Authors

John Stuart Mill

Alan Kahan

Alan S. Kahan (PhD, University of Chicago) is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt; John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville; and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. He has translated de Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution, and coedited The Tocqueville Reader. His most recent book is Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Florida International University, and currently teaches at the Institut des Etudes Politiques (SciencesPo) in Paris. He is currently working on a book about the separation of Church and State in France and America.

Foreword

Preface

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: JOHN STUART MILL AND HIS WORK

Who Was John Stuart Mill?

Mill’s Childhood and Early Career

New Influences on Mill and On Liberty

Mill in Context

On Liberty

PART TWO
THE DOCUMENT: ON LIBERTY

PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS

1. John Stuart Mill, Diary, January–April, 1854

2. John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

3. John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women, 1869

4. London Quarterly Review, Notice of On Liberty, October 1859

5. Leslie Stephen, Social Macadamization, Fraser’s Magazine, August 1872

6. Southern Review, Review of On Liberty, July 1867

Appendixes

A Chronology of Important Events in the Life of John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index