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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life /

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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life /

[Book]

Mark Francis.

Stocksfield [England] :

Acumen,

2007.

1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life.

Spencer, Herbert,1820-1903.

Spencer, Herbert,1820-1903.

Spencer, Herbert.

Philosophers, Modern-- Great Britain, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.

Philosophers, Modern.

PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Modern.

Great Britain.

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