John Stuart Mill: A Biography.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: September 1, 2004 | Copyright information

John Stuart Mill: A Biography. Nicholas Capaldi. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]27.50 (US$40.00). xx + 436 pages. ISBN 0-521-62024-4. Mill's continuing importance for historians is reflected in this new biography. The author claims not only that Mill was 'the most influential British philosopher of the nineteenth century' but 'the last major British philosopher to present an integrated view of the whole of philosophy'. He was, if not the 'quintessential Victorian intellectual', at least one type of intellectual: Cardinal Newman was equally representative of a ...

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