James And John Stuart Mill: Father And Son In The Nineteenth Century
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few relationships in intellectual history are as charged with ambition, control, and quiet rebellion as that between James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill — and Bruce Mazlish brings this extraordinary dynamic to life with the precision of a historian and the insight of a psychoanalyst. Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century Britain, this dual biography chronicles the lives of two of the era's most formidable thinkers, tracing how the elder Mill's relentless educational experiment shaped — and scarred — the mind of one of liberalism's greatest champions. Mazlish draws on psychobiographical methods to illuminate the deeper tensions beneath the philosophical discourse, arguing that the story of these two men is inseparable from the story of modernity itself. Themes of authority, identity, intellectual inheritance, and emotional repression run throughout, rendered in prose that is both rigorous and compellingly readable. Readers left wondering how much of any great mind is truly its own will find this work an enduring and unsettling provocation.
Author: Bruce Mazlish
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few relationships in intellectual history are as charged with ambition, control, and quiet rebellion as that between James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill — and Bruce Mazlish brings this extraordinary dynamic to life with the precision of a historian and the insight of a psychoanalyst. Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century Britain, this dual biography chronicles the lives of two of the era's most formidable thinkers, tracing how the elder Mill's relentless educational experiment shaped — and scarred — the mind of one of liberalism's greatest champions. Mazlish draws on psychobiographical methods to illuminate the deeper tensions beneath the philosophical discourse, arguing that the story of these two men is inseparable from the story of modernity itself. Themes of authority, identity, intellectual inheritance, and emotional repression run throughout, rendered in prose that is both rigorous and compellingly readable. Readers left wondering how much of any great mind is truly its own will find this work an enduring and unsettling provocation.