The man versus the state : with six essays on government, society, and freedom / by Herbert Spencer ; foreword by Eric Mack ; introduction by Albert Jay Nock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The.

Individualism.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 531 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Classics, [1981]

Summary:

"Spencer had caught a vision of what might be in store for mankind if its potential were free to realize itself."-- Edmund A. Opitz, "The Freeman"This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as "The Man Versus the State" in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. In addition, it provides "The Proper Sphere of Government," an important early essay by Spencer.Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation--the statist principle--for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation. His theme is that "there is in society . . . that beautiful self-adjusting principle which will keep all its elements in equilibrium. . . . The attempt to regulate all the actions of a community by legislation will entail little else but misery and compulsion."Eric Mack is Professor of Philosophy at Newcomb College of Tulane University

Contents:

The man versus the state (1884)

The proper sphere of government (1843)

Over-legislation (1853)

Representative government

What is itgood for? (1857)

The social organism (1860)

Specialized administration (1871)

From freedomto bondage (1891)

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0913966975 :

OCLC:

7875888