On Liberty,9780300096088

On Liberty

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ISBN13: 9780300096088
ISBN10: 0300096089
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2003-01-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.

Table of Contents

Editorial Note ix
A Note on the Life and Thought of John Stuart Mill 1(68)
David Bromwich
A Reading of On Liberty 28(41)
George Kateb
On Liberty
A Note on the Text
69(4)
Introductory
73(13)
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
86(35)
Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
121(18)
Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
139(17)
Applications
156(91)
Rethinking On Liberty
A Freedom Both Personal and Political
179(18)
Owen Fiss
On Liberty: A Revaluation
197(11)
Richard A. Posner
Mill's Liberty and the Problem of Authority
208(16)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Mill as a Critic of Culture and Society
224(23)
Jeremy Waldron
Bibliography 247

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