History and historiography in classical utilitarianism, 1800-1865 / Callum Barrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrell, Callum, author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 136.

Ideas in context ; 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utilitarianism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Utilitarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians' historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, at a time when the past acquired new significances as both a means and object of study. Drawing on published and unpublished writings - and set against the intellectual backdrops of Scottish philosophical history, German and French historicism, romanticism, positivism, and the rise of social science and scientific history - Callum Barrell recovers the depth with which Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, George Grote, and John Stuart Mill thought about history as a site of philosophy and politics. He argues that the utilitarians, contrary to their reputations as ahistorical and even antihistorical thinkers, developed complex frameworks in which to learn from and negotiate the past, inviting us to rethink the foundations of their ideas, as well as their place in - and relationship to - nineteenth-century philosophy and political thought.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-02025-0

1-009-02045-5

1-009-00471-9

OCLC:

1272856668