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Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality
Historical, Methodological and Philosophical Issues
Series: - Studies in the History of Political Thought, Volume: 1
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Vincent Guillin uses the issue of sexual equality as a prism through which to examine important differences â epistemological, methodological and theoretical â between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He succeeds in showing how their differing conceptions of science and human nature influence and affect their respective approaches to philosophy and to the analysis of female (in)equality in particular. Guillin shines a bright searchlight into long-neglected aspects of both menâs thinking â for example, Millâs proposal to construct an âethologyâ, or science of character-formation, and Comteâs seemingly bizarre interest in phrenology â and the ways in which these shaped their views of womenâs intellectual and political capacities. Guillinâs wide-ranging study examines both menâs major and minor works, their correspondence with one another, and the reasons for the final acrimonious break between two of the nineteenth centuryâs most original and important thinkers.
Vincent Guillin is currently Assistant Professor at the Collège de France in Paris, for the Chair of the Philosophy of Life Science. After graduating from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he completed a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics in 2006. He is working at the intersection of philosophy of science, political philosophy and history of science, especially on the various ways scientific theories have informed and are informing projects of social reforms and public policies. He is also interested in the early reception of John Stuart Mill's writings and ideas in France. Most recently, he has co-edited, together with Anne Fagot-Largeault, Frédéric Worms and Arnauld François, a special issue of Annales Bergsoniennes (Paris, PUF, 2008) on Henri Bergson's Evolution creatrice.
Ce qui frappe aussi dans ce livre, câest non seulement la précision de lâinformation, mais le soin méticuleux apporté à déconstruire et reconstruire les argumentations et à croiser les thèses particulières sur la question féminine avec celles des Åuvres majeures des deux philosophes. Lâouvrage présente donc de multiples intérêts qui le recommandent certes à la lecture des spécialistes de comte, de mill ou des études de genre, mais aussi de tous ceux qui apprécient les travaux bien documentés et la clarté et la rigueur des exposés dûment ordonnés.
Annie Petit, Revue philosophique, n° 1, 2012, pp. 109-111
Annie Petit, Revue philosophique, n° 1, 2012, pp. 109-111
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Comte and Mill on Sexual Equality: Context and Problems
2. The Female Brain and the Subjection of Women: Biology, Phrenology and Sexual Equality
3. The Phrenological Controversy
4. The Explanation of Moral Phenomena: Comte and Mill on the Architectonics of the Moral Sciences
5. A Never Ending Subjection? Comte, Mill, and the Sociological Argument against Sexual Equality
6. The Ethological Fiasco: The Methodological Shortcomings of the Millian Science of the Formation of Character
7. How To Discover Oneâs Nature: Millâs Argument for Emancipation in the Subjection of Women
Conclusion
Appendix: Comtean Studies, 1993-2000
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Comte and Mill on Sexual Equality: Context and Problems
2. The Female Brain and the Subjection of Women: Biology, Phrenology and Sexual Equality
3. The Phrenological Controversy
4. The Explanation of Moral Phenomena: Comte and Mill on the Architectonics of the Moral Sciences
5. A Never Ending Subjection? Comte, Mill, and the Sociological Argument against Sexual Equality
6. The Ethological Fiasco: The Methodological Shortcomings of the Millian Science of the Formation of Character
7. How To Discover Oneâs Nature: Millâs Argument for Emancipation in the Subjection of Women
Conclusion
Appendix: Comtean Studies, 1993-2000
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the history of ideas, nineteenth-century philosophy, and the history of science.