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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819558303321

Autore

Mill John Stuart <1806-1873>

Titolo

Miscellaneous writings / / John Stuart Mill ; edited by John M. Robson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press : , : Routledge, , 1989

©1989

ISBN

1-4426-5589-5

1-4426-2333-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 pages)

Collana

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Botany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Editions of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, 1827 and 1869 -- Botanical Writings, 1840-61 -- Medical Reviews, 1834 and 1842 -- APPENDICES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The interests and activities of John Stuart Mill (1806–73) were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volumes of Collected Works cannot encompass them all. In this volume are brought together diverse and interesting instances of his polymathic career, none before republished and some previously unpublished.Neatly framing Mill’s writing career are his editorial prefaces and extensive notes to Jeremy Bentham;s Rationale of Judicial Evidence (1827) and James Mill’s Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1869). Both demonstrate his extraordinary powers of mind and diligence as well as his fealty. His constant avocation, field botany, is shown in his botanical writings, which open a window on an almost unknown activity that sustained and delighted him. Brief comments on two medical works hint at another interest. Two articles of which he was co-author demonstrate his work as editor of the London and Westminster Review, and a calendar of his contributions to the Political Economy Club provides yet another glimpse into his chosen activities and concerns. Published for the first time are Mill’s



English and French wills, providing still further biographical detail.