Cover: On Liberty, 1st Edition by John Stuart Mill; Edited by Alan Kahan

On Liberty

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First  Edition©2008  John Stuart Mill; Edited by Alan Kahan

ISBN:9781319242800

ISBN:9780312450496

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Focused on the issues of autonomy and freedom in nineteenth-century Britain, On Liberty combines John Stuart Mill’s influential work with a set of relevant primary sources to give you a more complete picture of the text, who the author was, and how the work was initally received.

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Table of Contents

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

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.