Zbigniew Janowski

In addition to On Liberty and On Representative Government, this new selection of Mill’s writings includes, among others, a number of less known of his writings, such as: "Civilization," "Perfectibility," "The Negro Question," "On Education," "On Aristocracy," "On Marriage," "On Free Press," "Socialism," Mill’s review of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, his letters to Tocqueville, and several other writings. If one...

An esteemed contributor to the discussion of political liberalism and its limited promises, Zbigniew Janowski identifies four key players—Jefferson, Humboldt, Constant, and Mill—of liberal thought and draws important discussions from each of these profiles. His exposition reveals how complicated an undertaking it is to define liberalism and all it comprises. But one must do so in order to test the...