| Description |
xiv, 434 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-426) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903. |
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Philosophers, Modern -- England -- Biography.
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Philosophers, Modern. |
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England. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780801445903 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801445906 cloth alkaline paper |
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