Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill Paula Harms Payne Jo Ellen Jacobs
For 170 years, Harriet Taylor Mill has been presented as a footnote in John Stuart Mill s life. This volume gives her a separate voice. Readers may assess for themselves the importance and influence of her ideas on "women s" issues such as marriage and divorce, education, domestic violence, and suffrage. And they will note the overlap of her ideas on ethics, religion, arts, and socialism, written in the 1830s, with her more famous husband s works, published 25 years later.
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For 170 years, Harriet Taylor Mill has been presented as a footnote in John Stuart Mill s life. This volume gives her a separate voice. Readers may...
Classical and modern literature often reveal more about the organized world s forms of power and authority structures than do works of political philosophy. What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power and its exercise originate in literature? Why do the early manifestations of political and religious tolerance appear in utopian literature, rather than in philosophical treatises? Is it possible to do fictionally what others tend to do academically and theoretically? Exploring these questions allows Leonidas Donskis to analyze the relationship...
Classical and modern literature often reveal more about the organized world s forms of power and authority structures than do works of political philo...