Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life
Francis, Mark, 1944-
Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] / Mark Francis. - Stocksfield [U.K.] : Acumen, 2007. - xiv, 434 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
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.
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
Philosophers, Modern--England--Biography.
Electronic books.
B1656 / .F73 2007eb
Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] / Mark Francis. - Stocksfield [U.K.] : Acumen, 2007. - xiv, 434 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
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.
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
Philosophers, Modern--England--Biography.
Electronic books.
B1656 / .F73 2007eb