Thorstein Veblen and the enrichment of evolutionary naturalism

"Tilman argues that evolutionary naturalism provides the philosophical foundations of Veblen's thought. He links evolutionary naturalism to Veblen's aesthetics, secular humanism, sociology of control, sociobiology, and sociology of knowledge, thereby initiating observations regarding the relationshi...

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Main Author: Tilman, Rick
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Veblen, evolutionary naturalism, and secular humanism
  • The theory of cultural lag revisited
  • Veblen's cultural lag applied and compared
  • On sports, religion, and gambling
  • Aesthetician of the commoners
  • Veblen and the sociology of control
  • Veblen, Darwin, and sociobiology
  • Veblen and the sociologists of knowledge
  • Veblen's anthropology and structural-functional theory
  • Evolutionary naturalism : its progressive enrichment.