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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
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