On Liberty And, The Subjection of Women - Penguin Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority. Written in the same period as On Liberty, shortly after the death of Mill's beloved wife and fellow-thinker Harriet, The Subjection of Women stresses the importance of equality for the sexes. Together, the works provide a fascinating testimony to the hopes and anxieties of mid-Victorian England, and offer a compelling consideration of what it truly means to be free.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141441474
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 323.34
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 230g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 18mm