John Stuart Mill, ON LIBERTY, and the Working Class: Introduction Essay in Political Theory

FAIN: FT-13308-77

Richard E. Ashcraft
UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)

To use the sociology of knowledge approach to the interpretation of political theory to emphasize the importance of John Stuart Mill's attitudes towards the working class in Victorian England as the axis from which to assess the meaning and significance of the major propositions and arguments contained in the essay On Liberty.