Article: Joseph Hamburger. John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control.(Book review)

Joseph Hamburger. John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control (Princeton UP, 1999), xx + 239 pp., $35.00 cloth.

This is a difficult book to assess and discuss delicately. It is a posthumous production that is, in self-admitted fashion, imperfectly realized. Its author, Joseph Hamburger, Pelatiah Petit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University, died in 1997, leaving a manuscript that "was almost ready for publication" (ix), in the words of his posthumous editor "P.A.H." (one of his children whose identity remains unrevealed). Yet, frankly, such an assessment was far too optimistic. The editor reveals her or his reluctance "to modify arguments or to ...

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