{"product_id":"john-stuart-mill-on-liberty-joseph-hamburger-9780691089881","title":"John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in \u003ci\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the \"saint of rationalism\" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691089884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691089881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.12w x 0.73d","brand":"Joseph Hamburger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46172938141951,"sku":"9780691089881","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93d75dde-fd22-4c72-b105-de8eb13bccfe.jpg?v=1727179531","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/john-stuart-mill-on-liberty-joseph-hamburger-9780691089881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}