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Overview"Despite John Stuart Mill's widely respected contributions to philosophy and political economy, his work on political philosophy has received a much more mixed response. Some critics have even charged that Mill's liberalism was part of a political project to restrain, rather than foster, democracy. Nadia Urbinati argues here that this claim misrepresented Mill's thinking. Although he did not elaborate a theory of democracy, Mill did devise new avenues of democratic participation in government. Drawing on his often overlooked writings on ancient Greece, Urbinati shows that Mill saw the ideal representative government as a ""polis of the moderns"", a metamorphosis of the most unique features of the Athenian polis - especially its deliberative character and its Socratic ethos of the sovereignty of individual judgement. Urbinati concludes by demonstrating the importance of Mill's deliberative model of politics to his theory of political liberty and to the contemporary debate on liberal and republican views of liberty. Urbinati's fresh and persuasive approach not only clarifies Mill's political ideas, but also illuminates how they can help enrich our contemporary understanding of democracy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nadia UrbinatiPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.576kg ISBN: 9780226842776ISBN 10: 0226842770 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 September 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsNadia Urbinati does what I have never thought possible. She shows how Mill was perfectly serious about the superiority of Athenian political intelligence and yet how Mill understood that modern political institutions required that intelligence to be developed in ways that were recognizably Athenian in inspiration, but modern in institutional terms. - Alan Ryan, Oxford University Author InformationNadia Urbinati is associate professor of political theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Le civili liberta and Individualismo democratico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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