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Author Mingardi, Alberto

Title Herbert Spencer
Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Series Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers
Major conservative and libertarian thinkers
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Life and the Character; 3. Ideas; 4. Herbert Spencer's Offspring; 5. Who Should Read Spencer Today?; Bibliography; Index
Summary This volume makes a compelling case for the continued relevance and significance of Herbert Spencer (1820-1904), one of the foremost intellectuals of the Victorian era whose work now tends to be regarded as being of purely historical interest. One of the originators of the evolutionary classical liberal or libertarian approach exemplified later by F.A. Hayek, Spencer engaged with such issues as the relationship between the individual and the state; the nature of majoritarian democracy; the legitimacy of private property; the consequences of the transition from relatively simple, feudal commun
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Subject Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
SUBJECT Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 fast
Subject Philosophers, Modern -- England -- Biography
Philosophers, Modern -- England -- Criticism and interpretation
Philosophers, Modern
England
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Meadowcroft, John
ISBN 9781441108302
1441108300
1283271451
9781283271455