Table of Contents:
  • A note on the life and thought of John Stuart Mill / David Bromwich
  • A reading of On liberty / George Kateb
  • ON LIBERTY [the text by John Stuart Mill]: A note on the text
  • Introductory
  • On the liberty of thought and discussion
  • Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being
  • Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual
  • Applications
  • RETHINKING ON LIBERTY: A freedom both personal and political / Owen Fiss
  • On liberty: a revaluation / Richard A. Posner
  • Mill's liberty and the problem of authority / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Mill as a critic of culture and society / Jeremy Waldron.