The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Lamb

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198753155.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Larsen

Keyword(s):

Thomas Carlyle ◽

Auguste Comte ◽

Traditional Institutions ◽

Theory Of History ◽

Male Friend

As his time of crisis abated, Mill found himself attracted to voices beyond the confines of—even antithetical to—the ‘sect’ in which he had been raised: notably, S. T. Coleridge, the Saint-Simonians, Auguste Comte, and Thomas Carlyle, the author of Sartor Resartus. From Comte, Mill gained a theory of history that allowed him to appreciate the contribution that traditional institutions had made. Mill also made his best male friend, the Anglican clergyman John Sterling. Out of this period would emerge a lifelong instinct to try to create a via media between two ostensibly opposing ideologies or viewpoints. This mediating approach found expression in his articles, ‘Bentham’ and ‘Coleridge’. Mill added Romanticism to his Enlightenment birthright.

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JOHN STUART MILL, VICTORIAN LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILURE OF CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTION

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x15000011 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 153-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JOCELYN PAUL BETTS

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Political Economy ◽

Profit Sharing ◽

John Stuart Mill ◽

Thomas Carlyle ◽

Construction Of Knowledge ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

Auguste Comte ◽

Shed Light ◽

Valid Form

ABSTRACTJohn Stuart Mill's support for, and predictions of, co-operative production have been taken as a coherent wedding of liberal and socialist concerns, and as drawing together later nineteenth-century political economy and working-class radicalism. Despite its evident significance, the alliance of political economy and co-operative production was, however, highly conflicted, contested, and short-lived, in ways that help to shed light on the construction of knowledge of society in nineteenth-century Britain. Mill's vision should be seen as developed in contrast to the sociological and historical perspectives of Auguste Comte and Thomas Carlyle, as an attempt to hold together political economy as a valid form of knowledge with the hope of a new social stage in which commerce would be imbued with public spirit. This ideal thus involved debate about competing social futures and the tools of prediction, as well as entering debates within political economy where it was equally embattled. Even Mill's own economic logic tended more towards support of profit-sharing than co-operative production, and hopes for the latter became significantly less persuasive with the introduction of the concept of the entrepreneur into mainstream British economics during the 1870s and 1880s.

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John Stuart Mill – Zeitgeist und Zeitgenossen

10.23797/9783529097157 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hans Jörg Schmidt

Keyword(s):

John Stuart Mill ◽

Thomas Carlyle ◽

Auguste Comte

Die Texte in diesem Band zeigen John Stuart Mills (1806- 1873) Einbindung in zeitgenössische Diskurse und reichen von ersten Veröffentlichungen bis hin zum Werk des Elder Statesman. Der autoritätskritische Impetus des »Einmischers« und »Aufwieglers« Mill zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch diese Texte, die sich mit Zeitgenossen wie Auguste Comte, Thomas Carlyle oder William Hamilton auseinandersetzen. Seine schärfste Kritik gilt jeder Form von Machtmissbrauch wie Tyrannei, Despotismus und Totalitarismus. Mill präsentiert sich aber nicht nur als ein vehementer Kritiker jeglicher Machtanmaßung und der Idee unabänderlicher Vorherbestimmung, sondern auch als fundierter Theoretiker der Transformation und als ein öffentlicher Intellektueller, der für seine Überzeugungen in einem offenen Wettstreit eintrat. Ottfried Höffe schrieb zum Erscheinen der 5. Bandes in der FAZ 2017: »Für alle Freunde eines aufgeklärten Liberalismus: Die neue Ausgabe der Ausgewählten Werke ist abgeschlossen.«

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The Fate of Nations Is the Work of Genius

10.1093/oso/9780190674793.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Darrin M. McMahon

Keyword(s):

Political Culture ◽

French Revolution ◽

Thomas Carlyle ◽

Single Individual ◽

Historical Process ◽

The People ◽

Mass Politics ◽

Theory Of History ◽

The Many ◽

Modern Mass

The French Revolution is often thought of as a crucible of modern mass politics, an event that led to the emergence of the people as an agent and actor of social change. Less often remarked, however, is the fact that the Revolution also witnessed the crystallization of a very different narrative and myth—that the single individual of genius and power, “the great man,” was the true motor of history. Although dismissed today as simplistic and naïve, the “great man theory of history” enjoyed widespread currency in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, feeding an ideology that depicted the historical process, as Thomas Carlyle famously remarked, as the “biography of great men.” This ideology, too, is a feature of modern political culture, the strange offspring of a Revolution intended to substitute the rule of the many for the rule of the few.

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