On Liberty (Rethinking the Western Tradition) - Hardcover

Mill, John Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300096089 ISBN 13: 9780300096088

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty. Mill's passionate advocacy of spontaneity, individuality, and diversity, along with his contempt for compulsory uniformity and the despotism of popular opinion, has attracted both admiration and condemnation.

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About the Author

David Bromwich is Housum Professor of English at Yale University. George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University. Richard Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Jeremy Waldron is Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University.

Review

. . . . Mill is part of the air we breathe. . . . His treatise. . . . deserves attention. -- (Michael Potemra, National Review)

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300096089
• ISBN 13: 9780300096088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bromwich David, Kateb George