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" Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life / "
Mark Francis.
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844164
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Francis, Mark,1944-
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life /\ Mark Francis.
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| Publication Statement
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Stocksfield [England] :: Acumen,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) :: illustrations
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1282943375
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: 6612943378
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: 9781282943377
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: 9781315711942
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: 9781317493457
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: 9781317493464
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: 9781844650866
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: 9781844653898
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: 9786612943379
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0801445906
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1844650863
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9780801445903
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9781844650866
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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I: An individual and his personal culture -- 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 -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- 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.
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The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) have shaped evolutionary theory, philosophy of science, sociology & politics. This work aims to dispel the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer, throwing light on the broader cultural history of the 19th century.
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Spencer, Herbert,1820-1903.
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Spencer, Herbert,1820-1903.
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Spencer, Herbert.
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Philosophers, Modern-- Great Britain, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.
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Philosophers, Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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192
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B1656.F73 2007b
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