Table of Contents

1. John Stuart Mill’s Thought and Legacy: A Timely Reappraisal 2. The Primacy of the Political and the Problem of Cultural Authority in an Age of Transition 3. Competing Theories of Character Formation: James vs. John Stuart Mill 4. Wild Natural Beauty and the Religion of Humanity: Mill’s ‘Green’ Credentials 5. Parallel Lives in Logic: the Benthams and the Mills 6. John Stuart Mill and Virtue Ethics 7. Justice as Higher Pleasure 8. Mill’s Feminism: Liberal, Radical, and Queer 9. Liberalism as Free Thought 10. Mill’s Relevance Today: A Personal View

About the Author

Georgios Varouxakis is Reader in History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London. He specialises in the history of British nineteenth-century political thought and in international political thought. He is the author of Mill on Nationality (2002) and Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (2002) and the co-editor of Utilitarianism and Empire (2005).


Paul Kelly is Professor of Political Theory and Head of Department. His interests are in British political thought and contemporary political philosophy. He is author of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, London 2007 and edited of Political Thinkers, second edition, Oxford, 2009.