Herbert Spencer And The Invention Of Modern Life

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317493451
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life written by Mark Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will be required reading for all students of the period.

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317591305
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Herbert Spencer: Legacies written by Mark Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines. In the course of the essays a significant re-evaluation of his influence on Victorian and Edwardian thought is provided. Spencer's contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology and ecology are considered, alongside his influence on key figures in science and philosophy. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore Spencer's nuanced and complex ideas and will be invaluable for historians of science and ideas, and all those interested in the intellectual culture of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Contributors: Peter J. Bowler, James Elwick, Mark Francis, Bernard Lightman, Chris Renwick, Vanessa L. Ryan, John Skorupski, Michael W. Taylor, Stephen Tomlinson, and Jonathan H. Turner

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131749346X
Total Pages : 461 pages
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Download or read book Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life written by Mark Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will be required reading for all students of the period.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Education written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Social Statics written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : London, D. Appleton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Study of Sociology written by Herbert Spencer and published by London, D. Appleton. This book was released on 1874 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piers J. Hale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610852X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Descent written by Piers J. Hale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin’s evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition in English intellectual life, one that not only predated the 1859 publication of the Origin of Species but also persisted throughout the Victorian period until World War I. Political Descent reveals that two evolutionary and political traditions developed in England in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act: one Malthusian, the other decidedly anti-Malthusian and owing much to the ideas of the French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck. These two traditions, Hale shows, developed in a context of mutual hostility, debate, and refutation. Participants disagreed not only about evolutionary processes but also on broader questions regarding the kind of creature our evolution had made us and in what kind of society we ought therefore to live. Significantly, and in spite of Darwin’s acknowledgement that natural selection was “the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms,” both sides of the debate claimed to be the more correctly “Darwinian.” By exploring the full spectrum of scientific and political issues at stake, Political Descent offers a novel approach to the relationship between evolution and political thought in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Style written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Data of Ethics written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book The Principles of Sociology written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: