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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life

by Francis, Mark,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Acumen, (Stocksfield [U.K.] :) Physical details: xiv, 434 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
Subject(s): Spencer, Herbert, -- 1820-1903. | Philosophers, Modern -- England -- Biography. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-426) 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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