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 background on 19th century British politics and society; intriguing biographical details; and discussion of the core issues that On Liberty addresses.
A wonderful edition.
On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work,...
In his much quoted, seminal work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty.
Presents the text of four essays by nineteenth-century English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, and includes textual and explanatory notes, chronology, and introduction.
Presents two essays on democratic morality discussing the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state.
This book will be indispensable both to those familiar with On Liberty and to those coming to it for the first time.
John Stuart Mill was born on 20th May 1806.
Together, the works provide a fascinating testimony to the hopes and anxieties of mid-Victorian England, and offer a compelling consideration of what it truly means to be free.
Concerned with modern Western political philosophy, this text contains J.S. Mill's On Liberty and a selection of essays by Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L.Ten and Richard Wollheim on...
Not available since the 1980s, this up-dated edition by the leading political philosopher, John Gray, outlines his new position on Hayek.