| Description |
xiv, 434 pages, 12 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I An Individual and his Personal Culture -- 1 A Portrait of a Private Man -- 2 The Longing for Passion -- 3 The Problem with Women -- 4 Feminist Politics -- 5 Culture and Beauty -- 6 Eccentricities: Health and the Perils of Recreation -- Part II The Lost World of Spencer's Metaphysics -- 7 The New Reformation -- 8 Intellectuals in the Strand -- 9 The Genesis of a System -- 10 Common Sense in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 11 From Philosophy to Psychology -- Part III Spencer's Biological Writings and his Philosophy of Science -- 12 On Goodness, Perfection and the Shape of Living Things -- 13 The Meaning of Life -- 14 Science and the Classification of Knowledge -- Part IV Politics and Ethical Sociology -- 15 The Spencerian Foundations of Liberalism -- 16 Early Victorian Radicalism -- 17 Sociology as an Ethical Discipline -- 18 Sociology as Political Theory -- 19 Progress 'versus' Democracy |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
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Philosophers, Modern -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781844650866 (hbk.) |
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