Hayek On Mill The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings [Hardcover]

Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Mills extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill. Hayek first published the Mill-Taylor correspondence in 1951, and his edition soon became required reading for any study of the nineteenth-century foundations of liberalism.
          
This latest addition to the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series showcases the fascinating intersections between two of the most prominent thinkers from two successive centuries. Hayek situates Mill within the complex social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europeas well as within twentieth-century debates on socialism and planningand uncovers the influence of Taylor-Mill on Mills political economy. The volume features the Mill-Taylor correspondence and brings together for the first time Hayeks related writings, which were widely credited with beginning a new era of Mill scholarship.

PART I. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage 1. Harriet Taylor and Her Circle (1830) 2. Acquaintance and Early Crises (1830 1833) 3. On Marriage and Divorce (about 1832) 4. Friends and Gossip (1834 1842) 5. The Years of Friendship (1834 1847) 6. A Joint Production (1847 1849)   7. John Taylors Illness and Death (1849) 8. Marriage and Break with Mills Family (1851)   9. Illness (1851 1854) 10. Italy and Sicily (1854 1855) 11. Greece (1855) 12. Last Years and Death of Mrs. Mill (1856 1858) Appendix I Poems by Harriet Taylor Appendix II An Early Essay by Harriet Taylor Appendix III Family Trees PART II. Related Writings13. John Stuart Mill at the Age of Twenty- Five 14. J. Slƒ*