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more information - www.cambridge.org/9780521761086 MILL AND PATERNALISM ManydiscussionsofJ.S.Mill’sconceptoflibertyfocustoonarrowly onOnLibertyandfailtoacknowledgethatMill’streatmentofrelated issueselsewheremaymodifyitsleadingdoctrines.MillandPaternal- ismdemonstrateshowacontextualreadingsuggeststhatinPrinciples of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domesticissueslikelandreform,Millproposedasubstantiallymore interventionistaccountofthestatethanOnLibertyseemstoimply. Thishelpstoexplainhissympathiesforsocialismafter1848,aswell ashisMalthusianismandfeminism,which,inconjunctionwithHar- riet Taylor’s views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is showntoprovide the answer to theproblemwhichmostagitatedMill,overpopulation.ThusGregory ClaeysshedsnewlightsonmanyofMill’soverarchingpreoccupations, includingthetheoryoflibertyattheheartofOnLiberty. gregory claeys isProfessoroftheHistoryofPoliticalThought atRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon.Hispreviouspublications include Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920 (2010) andCitizensandSaints:PoliticsandAnti-PoliticsinEarlyBritishSocial- ism (1989). He has also edited The Cambridge History of Nineteenth CenturyPoliticalThought(2011),withGarethStedmanJones,andThe CambridgeCompaniontoUtopianLiterature(2010). MILL AND PATERNALISM GREGORY CLAEYS RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521761086 (cid:2)C GregoryClaeys2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Claeys,Gregory. Millandpaternalism/GregoryClaeys,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-76108-6 1.Mill,JohnStuart,1806–1873. 2.Paternalism. I.Title. b1607.c53 2013 192–dc23 2012032868 isbn978-0-521-76108-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. TothestaffofWardA9oftheHammersmithHospital,London, fromsurgeontocleaner,AlbaniantoZimbabwean,for theirtendermercies,withheartfeltgratitude. Secondly,totwentyyearsofstudentsinRoyalHolloway’s ‘Victorian SocialandPolitical Thought’course,whofirstheard andprobedmanyofthisbook’sarguments,and inspiredmetopushthemfurther. Andfinally,toM.T.L.,epitome offelineexcellence,RIP. Contents Acknowledgements pageix Introduction:Mill,libertyandpaternalism: context,intentionandinterpretation 1 1 Mill,libertyandpaternalism 1 Negativelibertyandidealcharacter 8 Thevalue,rightsanddutiesofinterference:theroleof OnLiberty Modelsofauthority:Bentham,Malthus,Carlyle, 16 theSaint-SimoniansandComte 34 Evidenceofauthority:‘henpecked’restated 42 Self-dependence:thecritiqueofblindpaternalism 59 Conclusion 1 Intervention,progressandthestate– domesticandforeign 61 61 Millanddomesticreform 61 Thescopeofgovernment 70 Taxationandinheritance 76 Poorrelief 79 Franchiseregulations 83 Education 88 Miscellaneousissuesrespectingstateintervention 93 Foreignintervention:IndiaandIreland 99 India:‘parentaldespotism’ 108 Irelandandlandreform 118 Conclusion 2 Mill,socialismandcollectiveautonomy 123 OwenismandSaint-Simonism:fromthemid1820sto c.1840 128 From‘Coleridge’(1840)to‘TheClaimsofLabour’(1845) 134 1848 139 Land,cooperationandthe‘ChaptersonSocialism’,1852–73 153 vii viii Contents 162 The‘ChaptersonSocialism’andthelimitsofMill’ssocialism 166 Conclusion:redincontext? 3 RethinkingOnLiberty:superstition,expediency andfamilyvalues 173 173 Introduction:the‘strongestcase’ 180 Superstitionandfamilyvalues 205 Mill’sMalthusianreputation 209 Conclusion Conclusion:theaimsofpositivepaternalism: equalassociationandradicalmeritocracy 211 211 Theargumentrestated 219 Millandpaternalism Bibliography 226 Index 249
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