Article ID: CBB520404307

Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells (2024)

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Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society. Their partnership inspired their work, a living experiment conducted through their own unconventional relationship. Over time, their increasingly radical, avant-garde ideas on marriage complicated the ongoing negotiation over power and intimacy which typified their marriages. Building on the historiography of social science couples, and by means of an analysis of the micro-social dynamics of marriage as documented in the life writings of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells, I analyse the connections between gender, intimacy, and creativity. These couples’ experiences highlight the non-rational dimension of a most rational endeavour.

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Authors & Contributors
Savoia, Paolo
Serrano, Elena
Antonelli, Francesca
Abir-Am, Pnina Geraldine
Bolufer Peruga, Mónica
Collyer, Fran
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Publishers
Bloomsbury Academic
Brill
Johns Hopkins University Press
Monash University Publishing
Concepts
Knowledge production
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Knowledge circulation
Social networks
Philosophy of science
Women in science
People
Weber, Max
Berkel, Klaas van
Bateson, Gregory
Bohm, David Joseph
Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan
Kries, Johannes von
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Brazil
United States
Great Britain
Australia
Japan
Institutions
Société Royale de Géographie d'Anvers (SRGA)
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