TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francis,Mark
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life
AV  - B1656 .F73 2007eb
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Stocksfield [U.K.]
PB  - Acumen
KW  - Spencer, Herbert,
KW  - Philosophers, Modern
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10455581
ER  -