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John Stuart Mill : a biography / Nicholas Capaldi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Capaldi, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
- Mill, John Stuart.
- Philosophers--England--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nicholas Capaldi's 2004 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.
- Contents:
- Childhood and early education : the great experiment (1806-1820)
- Company man and youthful propagandist (1821-1826)
- Crisis (1826-1830)
- The discovery of romance and romanticism (1830-1840)
- The transitional essays
- Intellectual success (1840-1845)
- Worldly success (1846-1850)
- Private years (1850-1859)
- The memorial essays
- Public intellectual (1859-1869)
- Last years (1869-1873).
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-428) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14234-2
- 1-280-43758-8
- 0-511-18434-4
- 0-511-16614-1
- 0-511-16419-X
- 0-511-31292-X
- 0-511-49805-5
- 0-511-16499-8
- OCLC:
- 171138267
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