On Liberty and Other Writings
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Three major essays—On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)—that illustrate Mill’s liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers.
Editorial matter—including a richly detailed introduction—by Nadia Urbinati.
Nine major commentaries—by Alan Ryan, Jonathan Riley, Piers Norris Turner, Wendy Donner, Elizabeth Anderson, Colin Heydt, David Dyzenhaus, Martha Nussbaum, and Georgios Varouxakis—that address the major themes of Mill’s philosophy.
A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization and the Feltrinelli Foundation. She is the author of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government, Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy, The Tyranny of the Moderns, Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People, and Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy. She has coedited numerous volumes, including The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation, On the Worth and Values of Democracy, and Condorcet’s Political Writing.