Neff Emery E (1 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. First thus. Spine edges rubbed, edges faintly foxed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1926 Half-Leather. xix, 311 pp. Green leather spine with gilt titles and decorations over green cloth boards, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers (with a nautical theme, for some reason). Includes: Editor's Introduction by Emery E. Neff; On Liberty: Introductory, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being, Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual, Applications; Nature; The Subjection of Women. These essays show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today--the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society.…