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In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. In an attempt to place these thinkers within the wider context of the crisis-oriented modernism and postmodernism that have been the source of much of what is most original and creative in twentieth-century art and thought.

THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY, WITHOUT THE AUTHORITARIAN TRAPPINGS ADDED BY A. COMTE, WAS THE HIGHEST RELIGION FOR MILL. THIS RELIGION WAS THE PREREQUISITE FOR AN IDEAL REORDERING OF SOCIETY. THE 1ST JUSTIFICATION FOR THE WRITING OF ON LIBERTY WAS A 'TOCQUEVILLEAN' DEFENSE OF SELF-PROTECTION. THE 2ND WAS BASED ON THE SAINT-SIMONIAN DOCTRINE OF ORGANIC & CRITICAL PERIODS. MILL BELIEVED HIS OWN AGE TO BE ONE OF TRANSITION, A CRITICAL PERIOD, WHICH WOULD END WHEN THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY BECAME PREDOMINANT. ON LIBERTY WAS WRITTEN TO WARN ABOUT THE REPRESSION & STAGNATION THAT MILL THOUGHT THIS RELIGION WOULD CREATE. MILL CAN BE SEEN AS A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER OF INDIVIDUALISM AWARE OF THE TENUOUS STATUS OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN MODERN SOCIETY. D. BURKENROAD.