Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Journals and Debating Speeches
Volumes XXVI-XXVII
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1988
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Political, Political, Philosophers, History & Theory
-
Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802026743
- Publish Date
- Dec 1988
- List Price
- $178.00
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442638693
- Publish Date
- Dec 1988
- List Price
- $106.00
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Out of print
This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.
Description
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 the authors
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.
John Stuart Mill's profile page
JOHN M. ROBSON was born educated in Toronto, graduating from the University of Toronto (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1953, PH.D. 1956). After lecturing at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta, he joined the staff as Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he is now Professor of English. He is Associate Editor of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, and he also edited Edmund Burke’s Appel from the New to the Old Whigs, J.S. Mill: A Selection, and Editing Nineteenth-Century Texts.
Other titles by
Additional Letters
Volume XXXII
Writings on India
Volume XXX
Newspaper Writings
Volumes XXII-XXV
Essays on French History and Historians
Volume XX
Essays on French History and Historians
Volume XX
Essays on England, Ireland, and Empire
Volume VI
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
Volume IX
Other titles by
Editing Nineteenth-Century Texts
The Improvement of Mankind
The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
Marriage or Celibacy?
The Daily Telegraph on a Victorian Dilemma
A Moralist In and Out of Parliament
John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868
Writings on India
Volume XXX
Newspaper Writings
Volumes XXII-XXV
Essays on French History and Historians
Volume XX
Essays on French History and Historians
Volume XX
Essays on England, Ireland, and Empire
Volume VI
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
Volume IX