Mill on liberty : a defence /
Mill on Liberty was first published in 1983 and has become a classic of Mill commentary. The second edition reproduces the text of the first in full, and in paperback for the first time. To this, John Gray adds an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edi...
| Основен автор: | Gray, John, 1948- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Издание: | 2nd ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=80089 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Mill on liberty. |
| Резюме: |
Mill on Liberty was first published in 1983 and has become a classic of Mill commentary. The second edition reproduces the text of the first in full, and in paperback for the first time. To this, John Gray adds an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edition, but develops radical criticisms of the substance of Millian and other liberalism. The new edition is intended as a contribution to the current debate about the foundations of liberalism, and it looks closely at the recent seminal contributions to liberal thought by Raz, Feinberg, Rawls and Berlin. Central to its argument is Gray's contention that, like other liberalisms that ground themselves on an ideal of autonomy or individuality, Millian liberalism has a Eurocentric bias that cannot be given rational justification. Gray addresses the question of whether any form of liberal theory, can, in fact, avoid the bias, and concludes that it cannot. This book will be indispensable both to those familiar with On Liberty and to those coming to it for the first time. In addition, the book will also be of great interest to moral and political theorists, to students of law and jurisprudence and to intellectual historians. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 175 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0203291239 9780203291238 0203432479 9780203432471 0203740718 9780203740712 0415124743 9780415124744 |