Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Stocksfield [U.K.] :
Acumen,
2007.
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.