On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2006
Summary
Freedom and Equality: Mill’s Vision of Liberty and the Subjection of Women
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.
Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a ‘tyranny of opinion’ in which minority views are suppres…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441474 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014144147X |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | John Stuart Mill, Alan Ryan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
On Libertyremains a classic… . The present world would be better than it is if [Mill
On Liberty remains a classic… . The present world would be better than it is if [MillÆs] principles were more respected. (Bertrand Russell)
About The Author
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Utilitarianism was published in 1861 but before that Mill published his System of Logic (1843), Principles of Political Economy (1848) and On Liberty (1839). His other works include his classic Autobiography (1873). Mill retired in 1858 and became the independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. He spent the rest of his life in France and died in Avignon.
Alan Ryan is the Warden of the New College, Oxford, and before that was Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, and J.S. Mill, and the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Utilitarianism and Other Essays.
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