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...LIBERTY AND LIBERALISM: THE CASE OF JOHN STUART MILL by GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB 345 pages. Knopf...
What a delicious irony Gertrude Himmelfarb suggests: behind every hippie crying "Do your own thing" and "Let it all hang out" stands an uptight Victorian with tics and twitches. Her Exhibit A is that pre-eminent Victorian John Stuart Mill, child protégé and author of On Liberty (1854). Himmelfarb, professor of history at the City University of New York and author of Victorian Minds, constructs a careful case about Mill as the sponsor of what she takes to be the fallacious modern argument that since liberty is good, the more liberty the better...
...scarcely needs to emphasize. So do the proposals the words support. Mill's gospel was that the individual could fulfill himself only in a climate of maximum freedom, and that the fulfillment of the individual was the supreme purpose in life. Could anything sound more contemporary? Indeed, Professor Himmelfarb dares to say that On Liberty has "far more" in common with our times than with Mill...
...argues, except in the area of women's liberation. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill protested that "the social subordination of women" stood out as "an isolated fact in modern social institutions; a solitary breach of what has become their fundamental law." Mill wrote On Liberty, Himmelfarb submits, hi order to make the broadest statement of enfranchisement to that half of the human race who had not yet recognized that they had been disenfranchised...
...York conference there was widespread support for Hook's contention that universities have an obligation to set priorities for their students. Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb of Brooklyn College deplored a "nihilistic tendency" to argue that "all ideas are equal." Harvard Social Scientist Nathan Glazer complained that the problem in his field is that priorities are always shifting. But even in this most inconstant area of liberal education, Glazer argues, it is possible to determine essentials if scholars will only...