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Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life.

The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Francis, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; List of illustrations; Introduction; I An individual and his personal culture; 1 A portrait of a private man; 2 The longing for passion; 3 The problem with women; 4 Spencer's feminist politics; 5 Culture and beauty; 6 Eccentricities: health and the perils of recreation; II The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics; 7 The New Reformation; 8 Intellectuals in the Strand; 9 The genesis of a system; 10 Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century; 11 From philosophy to psychology. 
505 8 |a III Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science12 On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things; 13 The meaning of life; 14 Science and the classification of knowledge; IV Politics and ethical sociology; 15 Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism; 16 The 1840s: Spencer's early radicalism; 17 Sociology as an ethical discipline; 18 Sociology as political theory; 19 Progress versus democracy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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