Mill on Civilization and Barbarism - Softcover

Levin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714684767 ISBN 13: 9780714684765

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

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J.s.mill on civilization and barbarism editado por Frank Cass Publishers

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"A penetrating study of an under-explored, but crucial, Victorian theme - Levin sheds much light on the concept often held to underpin Victorian thought, 'progress', by investigating both how its most famous exponent developed an account of what separated 'civilisation' from 'barbarism', and how it was possible not only to emerge from the latter to the former, but equally to fall back from civility to barbarity or a stagnant 'stationary' condition by failing to cultivate and reinforce a 'striving, go-ahead' entrepreneurial personality and British national character. This is a major study of one of the period's great themes which skilfully weaves together an account of Mill's political, philosophical, historical and imperial concerns." -Gregory Claeys, University of London

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John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process. This study encompasses discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from approximately the time of the American and French revolutions to that of the so-called mid-Victorian calm in which On Liberty was written. Current political issues concerning the West and Islamic countries have heightened interest in just the kind of question that this book discusses: that of how the West relates to, and assesses, the rest of the world.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0714684767
• ISBN 13: 9780714684765
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168