Journals and Debating Speeches (Collected Works of John Stuart Mill - Volumes XXVI & XXVII.) - Hardcover

Mill, John Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802026745 ISBN 13: 9780802026743

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 1988

Synopsis

One of the constant fascinations Mill holds for the general public as well as scholars derives from the early flowering of his genius. This development is seen in detail in the journal and notebook he kept in France during his fifteenth year, and in the debating speeches and walking-tour journals dating from his eighteenth to twenty-fourth years. This was the period when he first adopted Benthamism as 'a religion,' worked intensively as a propagandist for the faith, and then began the painful reassessment that led to his independent mature thought and action. Some of the results of that reassessment are seen in the diary entries from 1854, written for his wife, which reveal in personal form many of their most passionately held ideas.

These materials have never before been gathered, and almost all appear here for the first time in scholarly form. They throw light on contemporary social interests and behavior, and will encourage new assessments of Mill’s life and thought.

The texts, the great majority drawn from manuscripts, are presented in critical form, collated, with explanatory and textual notes. The Introduction gives the personal and historical context, with an analysis of content and rhetoric; the Textual Introduction supplies information about the nature and history of the documents, while Appendices provide ancillary materials. Both bibliographic and analytic indexes are included.

About this title

About the Author

One of the English-speaking world’s most influential philosophers, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote on countless topics, including logic, politics, women’s rights, legal history, medicine, and the philosophy of science.

The late John M. Robson was professor emeritus, University of Toronto, and General and Textual Editor of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.

Review

`Readers of Utilitas will not need to reminded of the unimpeachable standards of accuracy, informativeness already established by the Toronto edition ... It may seem needless, perhaps on my part even presumptuous, to express admiration for the sustained excellence of this edition, yet the combination of qualities it displays are rare and by no means to be taken for granted. - Stefan Collini, Utilitas

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0802026745
• ISBN 13: 9780802026743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 832
• Editor: Robson John