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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life /
The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) have shaped evolutionary theory, philosophy of science, sociology & politics. This work aims to dispel the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer, throwing light on the broader cultural history of the 19th century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stocksfield [England] :
Acumen,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: An individual and his personal culture
- A portrait of a private man
- The longing for passion
- The problem with women
- Spencer's feminist politics
- Culture and beauty
- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation
- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics
- The new reformation
- Intellectuals in the strand
- The genesis of a system
- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century
- From philosophy to psychology
- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science
- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things
- The meaning of life
- Science and the classification of knowledge
- IV: Politics and ethical sociology
- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism
- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism
- Sociology as an ethical discipline
- Sociology as political theory
- Progress versus democracy.