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Global Spencerism : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist /
Today the name most closely associated with evolutionary theory is Charles Darwin. Given Darwin¿́¿s immense reputation it is easy to forget that Herbert Spencer, in his time, was just as famous as Darwin. It turns out that Spencer¿́¿s evolutionary thought was not what necessarily appealed to many of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Cultural dynamics of science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Figures, Graphs and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; Bernard Lightman; Chapter 1; "What a Go-a-Head People They Are!": The Hostile Appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia; Michael D. Gordin; From Herbert to Gerbert; Spencer among the Populists; Mr. Chicherin Objects; Conclusion; Chapter 2; Spencer's Arabic Readers; Marwa Elshakry; "A Synthetic Philosophy"; Society: 'An Organism'; Empire and Education; Metaphysics and Positivism; Spencer's Arabic Readers; Chapter 3; Spencerism in Japan: Boom and Bust of a Theory; G. Clinton Godart.
- The "Spencer Bust"A Spencerian: Tokutomi Sohō; A Diverse Legacy; The Spencer Bust; Chapter 4; Spencer and Science Education in China; Ke Zunke and Li Bin; 1 Church Education and Yi Ye Yao Lan; 2 The Imperial Civil Examination and "San Yu Bing Ju"; 3 Scientific Education and Scientific Research; Chapter 5; The Reforming Spencerians: William James, Josiah Royce and John Dewey; Mark Francis; 1 James: The Founder of American Philosophical Psychology; 2 Royce: The Hegelian Who Could Sympathise with Induction; 3 Dewey: The Jamesian Psychologist and Liberal Progressive; 4 Conclusion; Chapter 6.
- Spencer's American Disciples: Fiske, Youmans, and the Appropriation of the SystemBernard Lightman; The Communications Revolution and the American Publishing Scene; John Fiske and His Early Relationship with Spencer; Fiske's Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy; Edward Youmans and the Popularization of Evolution; Disciple as Agent; The Disciples and Spencer's Decline; Chapter 7; The Ideology of the "Survival of the Fittest" during the Porfiriato in Mexico; Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, Ricardo Noguera Solano and Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso Ruiz; 1 The Background to Mexican Positivism; 2 Spencer in Mexico.
- 3 Justo Sierra: Spencerian Positivism as the Basis of Education4 Conclusions; Chapter 8; The Rise and Fall of Spencer's Evolutionary Ideas in Argentina, 1870-1910; Adriana Novoa; 1870s: Education and Government; 1880s: The Apparent Triumph of Continuity; 1890s: The Crisis of Materialism and the End of Spencer's Supremacy; Conclusion; Chapter 9; Spencerism in Brazil: An Introduction; Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues; Spencer's Ideas and the Context of Circulation ; Spencer and Brazilian Historiography: Silvio Romero and Capistrano de Abreu.
- Spencer and a Proposition of Political Science by Alberto SallesConclusion; Chapter 10; The Importance of Being Quantified: Herbert Spencer in Liberal Italy, and Beyond; Paola Govoni; 1 Context and Data; 2 The Spencer Effect: The First Wave (1870s-1890s); 3 The Spencer Effect: The Second Wave (1899-1920s); 4 Between Neo-Idealism and Fascism; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 11; Education and Evolution: Appropriations of Herbert Spencer in Scandinavia, 1870-1920; Hans Henrik Hjermitslev; Introducing Spencer in Denmark; Høffding's Interpretation of Spencer Abroad.