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Title: The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism by J.B. Schneewind, John Stuart Mill ISBN: 0-375-75918-2 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Liberty: The Basics
Comment: Not that Mill was ever obscure or inaccessible, but while Prof Schneewind's Introduction adds little value, the notes and annotations by Dale E Miller certainly renders this compendium transparent, even to folks like me who have been dumbed down by years of television debates as primary intellectual nourishment. He enlightens each of Mill's chapters with a short and easily assimilated introductory overview. Complementing this with text annotations, collected at the back of the book. The annotations appear to be very well selected, as they are never too numerous to make flipping to the back of the book tedious, yet they manage to illuminate every aspect or item I might have found even remotely confusing, ambiguous or otherwise incomprehensible in the modern idiom.
This text is an excellent starting point for reading JS Mill, and is very well suited to the armchair philosopher who wishes to get into the material with ease and without encumbrance. However, there may be too little in the annotations in terms of external references, or cross references to Mill's other writings, or background information to satisfy the more academically inclined.
Of course anyone with even a nominal interest in what liberty is... NEEDS to read JS Mill. But then, you wouldn't be here if you didn't know that, right?
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Title: Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, John Robson ISBN: 0140433163 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Basic Writings of Kant by Allen W. Wood, Immanuel Kant ISBN: 0375757333 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes, T. Hobbs, C. B. MacPherson ISBN: 0140431950 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston ISBN: 0140442014 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1968 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition by John Locke, Peter Laslett ISBN: 0521357306 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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