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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 Mill’s 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, including Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer, this book combines the latest insights of Mill scholarship with a long-term appraisal of the ways in which Mill’s work has been received and interpreted from the time of his death in 1873 to today. The book offers compelling insights into Mill’s posthumous fate and reputation; his youthful political and intellectual activism; his views on the formation of character; the development of his thought on logic; his differences from his father and Bentham; his astonishingly prescient, environmentally sensitive and ‘green’ thought; his relation to virtue ethics; his conception of higher pleasures and its relation to his understanding of justice; his feminist thought and its place in contemporary debates and feminist discourses; his defence of free speech and its fundamental significance for his liberalism; and his continued contemporary relevance on a number of major issues. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, Political Theory, Philosophy, History, English, Psychology, and also Cultural Studies, Empire studies, nationalism and ethnicity studies.

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Varouxakis: Books (single-authored): Mill on Nationality Routledge/PSA Political Studies Series, London and New York, Routledge, 2002. 2. Victorian Political Thought on France and the French, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 aEdited/co-edited volumes Utilitarianism and Empire, co-edited with Bart Schultz (Chicago), Lanham, ML: Lexington Books, 2005. Patriotism and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century European Political Thought, Special Issue of the European Journal of Political Theory, edited by Georgios Varouxakis, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006). 'Introduction: Patriotism and Nationhood in 19th-Century European Political Thought', pp. 7-11, written by Georgios Varouxakis. a aCo-authored textbook: Contemporary France: An Introduction to French Politics and Society, co-authored with David Howarth (Edinburgh), London: Arnold, 2003. Kelly: Books -- Single Authored Locke's Second Treatise of Government -- A Reader's Guide, London and New York, Continuum, 2007. Liberalism, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005. (Japanese edition forthcoming 2007, Polish edition 2007). Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. Edited Books Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, 2nd Edition., edited with David Boucher, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009. Between Pluralism and Multiculturalism: studies in Contemporary British Political Thought, ed. Yasushi Soeya, Paul Kelly and Seishi Sato eds., Kyoto, Minerva-sobu, 2008 (In Japanese). Political Thinkers: Western Political Theory from Socrates to the Present, edited with David Boucher, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. (Arabic, Chinese, Romanian and Polish translations 2008). Multiculturalism Reconsidered, ed. Paul Kelly, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002. British Political Science: 50 years of Political Studies, edited with Patrick Dunleavy and Mick Moran, Oxford, Basil Blackwell/PSA, 2000. Social Justice from Hume to Hayek, edited with David Boucher, London, Routledge, 1998, (Japanese edition 2002). Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice, ed. Paul Kelly, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1998, (Second Edition 2000). The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls, edited with David Boucher, London, Routledge 1994, (Japanese edition 1997).

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