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4Mill on Democracy RevisitedIn Christopher Macleod & Dale E. Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 2016.The essay examines both the main contributions Mill made to thinking about democracy and the reasons why his own democratic credentials have been a matter of dispute and highlights some common misunderstandings on Mill on democracy. It is argued here that a key to understanding Mill's pronouncements on democracy from the mid‐1830s onwards was his strong attachment to the idea that no power, value, or group should be allowed to preponderate exclusively in any society and that instead a healthy le…Read more
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20When did Britain join the Occident? On the origins of the idea of ‘the West’ in EnglishHistory of European Ideas 46 (5): 563-581. 2020.ABSTRACT This article takes issue with the current orthodoxy that the idea of ‘the West' as a supranational self-description based on civilizational commonality first emerged in English in the 1890s and 1900s in the context of the needs of British high imperialism. It shows, first, that there were, already in the eighteenth century, incipient attempts towards a term denoting a distinctive West-European cultural unity. It argues, further, that such uses were rather casual and interchangeable with…Read more
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7Discussion: National character in John Stuart Mill's thoughtHistory of European Ideas 24 (6): 375-391. 1998.
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7Mill on NationalityPsychology Press. 2002.This book provides a thorough study of Mill's thought and writing on nationhood, nationalism and patriotism, whilst placing them firmly within his socio-cultural context.
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Cosmopolitan patriotism in J.S. Mill's political thought and activismIn Nadia Urbinati & Alex Zakaras (eds.), J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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163Introduction Patriotism and Nationhood in 19th-Century European Political ThoughtEuropean Journal of Political Theory 5 (1): 7-11. 2006.
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21‘Negrophilist’ Crusader: John Stuart Mill on the American Civil War and ReconstructionHistory of European Ideas 39 (5): 729-754. 2013.Summary The article analyses the extensive and passionate responses that the American Civil War and the issues it raised elicited from John Stuart Mill. While it attempts to offer a brief but comprehensive overall account of Mill's influential involvement in debates on the Civil War both in Britain and in America, it focuses particularly on Mill's defence of racial equality for the American ?negroes? both during the war and in the course of debates on reconstruction after the war. Mill's concert…Read more
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7Discussion: National character in John Stuart Mill's thoughtHistory of European Ideas 24 (6): 375-391. 1998.
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118John Stuart Mill on RaceUtilitas 10 (1): 17-32. 1998.The article examines J. S. Mill's views on the significance of the racial factor in the formation of what he called . Mill's views are placed in the context of his time and are assessed in the light of the theories concerning these issues that were predominant in the nineteenth century. It is shown that Mill made strenuous efforts to discredit the deterministic implications of racial theories and to promote the idea that human effort and education could alter beyond recognition what were suppose…Read more
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26French radicalism through the eyes of John Stuart MillHistory of European Ideas 30 (4): 433-461. 2004.The paper attempts to highlight some under-researched aspects of the interaction between British and French radical political thinkers and activists during the period between the July Revolution of 1830 in France and the early years of the Third Republic. It focuses in particular on the decisive impact that the aftermath of the July Revolution of 1830 had for the perception of French politics by the most Francophile British radical, John Stuart Mill. In this context, Mill's astonishingly dense c…Read more
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5John Stuart Mill, thought and influence: the saint of rationalism (edited book)Routledge. 2010.More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the philosophical legacy of Millâes arguments, his complex version of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character and ethical and political commitment. Bringing together key international and interdisciplinary scholars, in…Read more
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11Utilitarianism and Empire (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by l…Read more
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32‘Patriotism’, ‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Humanity’ in Victorian Political ThoughtEuropean Journal of Political Theory 5 (1): 100-118. 2006.This article analyses the articulation of the relationship between ‘patriotism’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’ or commitment to ‘humanity’ in the writings of some major Victorian political thinkers. It is argued that: (a) there was no neat distinction between ‘patriotism’ and ‘nationalism’ in the thought of the time; (b) ‘patriotism’ was seen as a stepping stone to universalistic commitment to ‘humanity’ rather than as opposed to or incompatible with the latter; (c) most thinkers avoided the term ‘cosmop…Read more
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26Guizot's historical works and J.S. Mill's reception of TocquevilleHistory of Political Thought 20 (2): 292-312. 1999.In this article the relevance to the development of John Stuart Mill's political thought of his reading of Fran?ois Guizot's early historical works is examined jointly with some aspects of Tocqueville's imputed influence on the British thinker. Some ideas that are claimed here to have been Mill's intellectual debts to Guizot, have been habitually associated with Tocqueville's influence on Mill. In the first place it is argued that one of Mill’s most cherished ideas, what he called ‘the principle…Read more
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19th Century Philosophy |