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Brains and Numbers : Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England /
A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Heritage
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: ACADEMIC RADICALS: 1840-68
- 1. Elitism, the Clerisy, and University Reform at Oxford
- 2. Seeking the Nation: 1848-67
- 3. The Alliance of Brains and Numbers
- PART TWO: COMTE IN AN ENGLISH SETTING
- 4. From Oxford to Comte
- 5. The Search for the Proletariat
- 6. Rhetoric and Respectability
- PART THREE: POLITICS AND THE INTELLECTUAL: JOHN MORLEY AND FREDERIC HARRISON
- 7. The Vocation of the Intellectual
- 8. The Retreat into Politics: John Morley
- 9. The Retreat from Politics: Frederic Harrison
- Epilogue: Innocence and Experience
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index