John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression: The Genesis of a Theory Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	A worthy successor	9
	James Mill and the liberty of the press	9
	John Stuart Mill's early writings	15
	The Westminster Review	18
2	The aftermath of the 'mental crisis'	23
	The gradual change	24
	'The Spirit of the Age'	26
	Growing individualism	33
3	Coleridgian agendas	42
	Coleridge on liberty	43
	Mill as Coleridgian	46
	'Bentham' and 'Coleridge'	49
4	Joint productions?	59
	Harriet on toleration	59
	Joint progress	62
	Education and liberty	65
	Towards On Liberty	70
5	On Liberty: the 1859 response	75
	Speech and self-regarding acts	76
	The right to hear: understanding infallibility	78
	The necessity of intellectual challenge	84
	Truths and half-truths	89
6	Liberty, Equality, Fraternity	94
	Self-regarding acts and infallibility	95
	Liberty versus control	98
	App.: three 'new' letters from Mill to Stephen	101
7	On Liberty: recent interpretations	106
	One principle or two?	106
	Gray's defence of Mill	110
	Interests and progress	113
	Which interests should be considered as rights?	118
8	Exceptions to freedom of thought and discussion	126
	The corn-dealer example	126
	Forms of incitement	130
	Indecency and censorship	136
9	After on Liberty: from theory to reality	145
	Liberty in practice	145
	The Inaugural Address	149
	Mill in parliament	150
	After Westminster	155
10	Conclusion: Mill reassessed	159
	Notes	164
	Bibliography	209
	Index	222