Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life / Mark Francis.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Francis, Mark, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
• Philosophers, Modern--England--Biography.
• Philosophers, Modern.
• England.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 434 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Contents:

• 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
• The new reformation
• Intellectuals in the strand
• The genesis of a system
• Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century
• From philosophy to psychology
• On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things
• The meaning of life
• Science and the classification of knowledge
• 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-426) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780801445903
• 0801445906

OCLC:

72161868