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Personal Liberty and Public Good
Blame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. InPersonal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to the central text of liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill?sOn Liberty.
Howland offers absorbing analyses of the translations of the book into Japanese and Chinese, which at times reveal astonishing emendations. As with their political leaders, Mill?s Japanese and Chinese translators feared individual liberty could undermine the public good and standards for public behaviour, and so introduced their own moral values ? Christianity and Confucianism, respectively? intoOn Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland mirrors this mistrust of individual liberty in Asia with critiques of the work in England, which itself had trouble adopting liberalism.
Personal Liberty and Public Goodis a compelling addition to the corpus of writing on the work of John Stuart Mill. It will be of great interest to historians of political thought, liberalism, and translation, as well as scholars of East Asian studies.
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Mill and paternalism
\"Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domestic issues like land reform, Mill proposed a substantially more interventionist account of the state than On Liberty seems to imply. This helps to explain Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, as well as his Malthusianism and feminism, which, in conjunction with Harriet Taylor's views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is shown to provide the answer to the problem which most agitated Mill, overpopulation. Thus Gregory Claeys sheds new lights on many of Mill's overarching preoccupations, including the theory of liberty at the heart of On Liberty\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bald : how I slowly learned to not hate having no hair (and you can too)
Nobody chooses to be bald. Nobody wants to look into the mirror and be confronted with an absence. Nobody gains any comfort from having a slightly better idea of what their skull looks like. Stuart Heritage has been bald for two years. But before he accepted the inevitable, he spent a number of years ineptly trying to conceal this fact with an array of expensive treatments and terrible haircuts. Can a man go bald with dignity? Maybe. But can a man go bald with more dignity than Stuart Heritage? Oh good god yes, and this book is his attempt to make that happen for you. Part-memoir-part-manual, Stuart brings us a self-deprecating, funny and genuinely helpful guide to being bald: what really happens, why it matters and how to feel much less crap about it.
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FROM KABULIWALA TO KESARI: MAPPING THE (MISREPRESENTATIONS OF AFGHANS IN HINDI FILMS
Indians and Afghans have shared memories, cultural and historical linkages. Besides Kabul being a part of the Mughal Empire for a long time, more than half of the Pashtuns living to the east of the Durand Line were part of undivided India (present-day Pakistan) during the British rule. With most Indian cities having significant Afghan residents, Afghans/Pashtuns got special attention in popular narratives, including in Hindi films. In movies like Kabuliwala (1961), Khuda Gawah (1992), Kabul Express (2006), Kesari (2019), and Panipat (2019), Bollywood has presented different shades of Afghans on celluloid. The popularity of Indian films among Afghans is well known, but there is hardly any academic deliberation on the representation of Afghans in Hindi films. Drawing upon Stuart Hall's Representation and Edward Said's Orientalism theories, the paper seeks to fill this gap. Using a semiotic approach and critical discourse analysis this paper flags the tropes of misrepresentation of Afghans in Hindi films. This paper foregrounds the majoritarian discourse around Afghans in the popular imagination in India drawing upon the binaries of loyal/traitor, rational/brutal, benevolent/vengeful, patriots/potential dangers, and sophisticated/tribal. The paper concludes that Islamophobia and the larger anti-Muslim rhetoric playing out in India have contributed to the vilification of Afghans on screen even though the two countries shared cordial political relations. Keywords: film studies, Bollywood, Indo-Afghan relations, Pathan, Pashtun
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Close to the sun : the journey of a pioneer heart surgeon
Memoir by Stuart Jamieson, a member of the second generation of cardiothoracic surgical pioneers, from his early years in Africa to his career as an innovative heart surgeon.
John Stuart Mill
Nicholas Capaldi's 2004 biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. He shows how Mill was groomed for his life by both his father James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham, the two most prominent philosophical radicals of the early nineteenth century. Yet Mill revolted against this education and developed friendships with both Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who introduced him to Romanticism and political conservatism. A special feature of this biography is the attention devoted to his relationship with Harriet Taylor. No one exerted a greater influence than the woman he was eventually to marry. Nicholas Capaldi reveals just how deep her impact was on Mill's thinking about the emancipation of women.
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