Himmelfarb, Gertrude. On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill. New York: Knopf, 1974.

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If our politics is rife with contradictions and dead ends, as many today believe, then the intellectual origins of this crisis may be found in the key document of modern political thought: John Stuart Mill’s classic On Liberty.

In Gertrude Himmelfarb’s brilliant and timeless intellectual history, On Liberty and Liberalism, first published in 1974, two distinct strains of Mill’s political thought are revealed, each tied intricately to Mill’s personal life and committed to an opposing liberal tradition. The conflict between the two liberalisms, Himmelfarb believes, has intensified in modern times and is urgently in need of clarification.

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