Liberty, Women's rights, Representative government and representation, Political Science, Civil Rights, Utilitarianism, Women--Social and moral questions 

An edition of John Stuart Mill's classic argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression, with essays by scholars in a range of fields. Topics include the uses of authority and tradition, the shifting legal boundaries of free speech and free action, and personal liberty and market individualism. 

Named Person: John Stuart Mill; John Stuart Mill
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Stuart Mill; David Bromwich; George Kateb; Jean Bethke Elshtain
ISBN: 0300096089 9780300096088 0300096100 9780300096101
OCLC Number: 49799241
Description: x, 249 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents: A note on the life and thought of John Stuart Mill / David Bromwich --
A reading of On liberty / George Kateb --
ON LIBERTY [the text by John Stuart Mill]: A note on the text --
Introductory --
On the liberty of thought and discussion --
Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being --
Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual --
Applications --
RETHINKING ON LIBERTY: A freedom both personal and political / Owen Fiss --
On liberty: a revaluation / Richard A. Posner --
Mill's liberty and the problem of authority / Jean Bethke Elshtain --
Mill as a critic of culture and society / Jeremy Waldron.
Series Title: Rethinking the Western tradition.
Responsibility: John Stuart Mill ; edited by David Bromwich and George Kateb ; with essays by Jean Bethke Elshtain [and others].