Mill John Stuart - The Cambridge Companion to Mill

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

John Stuart Mill (180673) ranks among the very greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. Through his books, journalism, correspondence, and political activity, his impact on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance for contemporary philosophy and social thought is widely recognized.

This companion furnishes the reader with a systematic and fully up-to-date account of the many facets of Mills thought and influence. The volume also illuminates the many connections between Mills philosophy and contemporary work in epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and economics. It will be of special interest to all philosophers as well as a broad range of students and readers of political science, economics, and the history of ideas.

New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Mill currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Mill.

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The Cambridge Companion to

MILL

Edited by John Skorupski

University of St Andrews

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The Cambridge companion to Mill / [edited by] John Skorupski.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-521-41987-5 (hard). ISBN 0-521 -42211 -6 (pbk.)
1. Mill, John Stuart, 18061873. I. Skorupski, John, 1946 .
B1607.C25 1997
192-dc21

972968

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ISBN-10 0-521-41987-5 hardback
ISBN-10 0-521-42211-6 paperback

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