John Stuart Mill

Brandon Turner

Chapter 40 in Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought, 2024, pp 447-457 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the life, intellectual career, and political thought of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). It treats his remarkable early life and intellectual development—themselves the subject of his own Autobiography (1873)—with particular attention to his father’s influence, his friendship with Thomas Carlyle, and his transformative union with Harriet Taylor. These biographical details are followed by a discussion of the beginnings of Mill’s intellectual career and, then, a closer look at his most important political works: Utilitarianism (1863), Considerations on Representative Government (1861) and, especially, On Liberty (1859). This last is examined more fully and located within the thematic history of modern and liberal political theory.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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