Synopses & Reviews
Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Milland#8217;s extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill. Hayek first published the Mill-Taylor correspondence in 1951, and his edition soon became required reading for any study of the nineteenth-century foundations of liberalism.
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This latest addition to the University of Chicago Pressand#8217;s Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series showcases the fascinating intersections between two of the most prominent thinkers from two successive centuries. Hayek situates Mill within the complex social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europeand#151;as well as within twentieth-century debates on socialism and planningand#151;and uncovers the influence of Taylor-Mill on Milland#8217;s political economy. The volume features the Mill-Taylor correspondence and brings together for the first time Hayekand#8217;s related writings, which were widely credited with beginning a new era of Mill scholarship.
Review
andldquo;Splendid from beginning to end, including Peartandrsquo;s introduction, the letters, Hayekandrsquo;s commentary, and assorted documents.andrdquo;
Synopsis
F. A. Hayek, best known for reviving the ideas of classical liberalism, was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill.and#160; Hayek is even credited with beginning a new era of Mill scholarship. One of Hayekand#8217;s greatest undertakings was his collecting and editing of Milland#8217;s correspondence with his wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill.and#160; The correspondence that first appeared in Hayekand#8217;s 1951 collection soon became essential reading for any reexamination of the foundation of liberalism, the sources of Milland#8217;s radicalism, and the influence of Milland#8217;s good friend and wife.
Volume 16 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek showcases the fascinating intersection of two prominent thinkers from two successive centuries. In Hayek on Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings, we see how Hayek situated Mill within the complicated social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europe and within the mid-twentieth-century debates on socialism and planning.and#160; Part One of the volume republishes Hayekand#8217;s own collection, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage, which traces the narrative of Milland#8217;s intellectual development alongside the fascinating intellectual love story of Mill and his wife.and#160; Part Two presents in chronological order Hayekand#8217;s essays and correspondence related to Mill and Taylor.and#160; These materials engagingly reveal Hayekand#8217;s early interest in Mill, specifically, Hayekand#8217;s fascination with the influence of Harriet Taylor-Mill and Gustave Dand#8217;Eichthal on Mill, in Milland#8217;s methodology and his shifting position on socialism, and in Milland#8217;s Political Economy.and#160; Also included are various reviews and introductions to Milland#8217;s works that in large measure owe their publication to Hayekand#8217;s fascinating collection.
About the Author
F. A. Hayek (1899and#150;1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. Sandra J. Peart is dean and professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, where she also codirects the Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Editorial Foreword
Editorand#8217;s Acknowledgements
Editorand#8217;s Introduction
HAYEK ON MILL: THE MILL-TAYLOR FRIENDSHIP AND RELATED WRITINGS
Part I. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Symbols Used
Introduction
Oneand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Harriet Taylor and Her Circle (1830)
Twoand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Acquaintance and Early Crises (1830and#150;1833)
Threeand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; On Marriage and Divorce (about 1832)
Fourand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Friends and Gossip (1834and#150;1842)
Fiveand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; The Years of Friendship (1834and#150;1847)
Sixand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; A Joint Production (1847and#150;1849)
Sevenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; John Taylorand#8217;s Illness and Death (1849)
Eightand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Marriage and Break with Milland#8217;s Family (1851)
Nineand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Illness (1851and#150;1854)
Tenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Italy and Sicily (1854and#150;1855)
Elevenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Greece (1855)
Twelveand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Last Years and Death of Mrs. Mill (1856and#150;1858)
Appendix Iand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Poems by Harriet Taylor
Appendix IIand#160;and#160;and#160; An Early Essay by Harriet Taylor
Appendix IIIand#160;and#160; Family Trees
Part II. Related Writings
Thirteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; John Stuart Mill at the Age of Twenty-Five
Fourteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; J. S. Milland#8217;s Correspondence
Fifteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; The Dispersal of the Books and Papers of John Stuart Mill
Sixteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; J. S. Mill, Mrs. Taylor, and Socialism
Seventeenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Portraits of J. S. Mill
Eighteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Preface to The Life of John Stuart Mill
Nineteenand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Review of Mill and His Early Critics
Twentyand#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Review of John Milland#8217;s Boyhood Visit to France
Twenty-Oneand#160;and#160;and#160; Introduction to Considerations on Representative Government
Twenty-Twoand#160;and#160; Introduction to The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, 1812and#150;1848
Twenty-Threeand#160; Related Correspondence
Index of Names
Index of Subjects