Later Letters 1849-1873 - Hardcover

Mill, John Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802052614 ISBN 13: 9780802052612

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1972

Synopsis

The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence.These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never before published, and some sixty earlier letters that have come to light since the publication of the first two volumes of correspondence. The letters have been assembled from widely dispersed collections in the libraries of fifty-eight institutions and of some thirty private collections in Britain and in other countries of the Commonwealth, Europe, and North America. In addition, many personal letters of which no originals sirvived have been located in contemporary periodicals or biographies of Mill's correspondence.

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From the Back Cover

One of the most 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 notebooks 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 together, and almost all appear here for the first time in scholarly form. They throw light on contemporary social interests and behaviour, 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.

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. Francis E. Mineka (1907-1985) was a professor of English at Cornell University. Dwight N. Lindley (1952-1986) was a professor of English at Hamilton College.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802052614
• ISBN 13: 9780802052612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 501