Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life

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Hoofdauteur: Francis, Mark, 1944-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Stocksfield [U.K.] : Acumen, 2007.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.