Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life

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Main Author: Francis, Mark, 1944-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stocksfield [U.K.] : Acumen, 2007.
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245 1 0 |a Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Mark Francis. 
260 |a Stocksfield [U.K.] :  |b Acumen,  |c 2007. 
300 |a xiv, 434 p., [12] p. of plates :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-426) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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600 1 0 |a Spencer, Herbert,  |d 1820-1903. 
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