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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 September 2021
      07 October 2021
      ISBN:
      9781009004718
      9781316519073
      9781009001366
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004718
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (136)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (136)
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    This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians' historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, at a time when the past acquired new significances as both a means and object of study. Drawing on published and unpublished writings - and set against the intellectual backdrops of Scottish philosophical history, German and French historicism, romanticism, positivism, and the rise of social science and scientific history - Callum Barrell recovers the depth with which Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, George Grote, and John Stuart Mill thought about history as a site of philosophy and politics. He argues that the utilitarians, contrary to their reputations as ahistorical and even antihistorical thinkers, developed complex frameworks in which to learn from and negotiate the past, inviting us to rethink the foundations of their ideas, as well as their place in - and relationship to - nineteenth-century philosophy and political thought.

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