Herbert Spencer Legacies

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317591305
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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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 : 1317591291
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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 298 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
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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 : Greta Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950406688
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert Spencer written by Greta Jones and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the proceedings of a conference held to mark the centenary of Spencer's death, this volume contains contributions on subjects including the relationship between Spencer and Darwin, Spencer's involvement in French and Italian politics, and his ideas on economics and altruism.

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 : J. Arthur Thomson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Herbert Spencer written by J. Arthur Thomson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Herbert Spencer" by J. Arthur Thomson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
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Download or read book Intellectual Education written by Herbert Spencer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Intellectual Education', best remembered as 'Education' is a non-fiction book written by Herbert Spencer. He was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book First Principles written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kieran Egan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105100
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Getting it Wrong from the Beginning written by Kieran Egan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in Getting It Wrong from the Beginning. Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform. Egan traces the nineteenth-century sources of Progressive thinking about education and their persistence even now. He diagnoses the problem with our schools in a radically different way, and likewise prescribes novel alternatives to present educational practice. His book is both persuasive and full of promise?a book that belongs on the must-read list for anyone who cares about the success of our schools.

Author : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605909X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Hitler a Darwinian? written by Robert J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.