Herbert Spencer: legacies
by Francis, Mark Taylor, Michael
Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines. In the course of the essays a significant re-evaluation of his influence on Victorian and Edwardian thought is provided. Spencer's contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology and ecology are considered, alongside his influence on key figures in science and philosophy.
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- Full title :Herbert Spencer : legacies / edited by Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor.
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Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines. In the course of the essays a significant re-evaluation of his influence on Victorian and Edwardian thought is provided. Spencer's contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology and ecology are considered, alongside his influence on key figures in science and philosophy.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1317591305, 9781317591306, 9781315744162, 1315744163, 9781317591290, 1317591291, 9781317591283, 1317591283
- oclc:ocn894546989
- LC Classification:B1657
- Dewey Decimal:192
Table of Contents
Introduction / Mark Francis -- The method of nature: Herbert Spencer and the education of the adaptive mind / Stephen Tomlinson -- Herbert Spencer: nineteenth-century politics and twentieth-century individualism / Michael W. Taylor -- Herbert Spencer's sociological legacy / Jonathan H. Turner -- Containing multitudes: Herbert Spencer, organisms social and orders of individuality / James Elwick -- Herbert Spencer, biology, and the social sciences in Britain / Chris Renwick -- Spencer and the moral philosophers: Mill, Sidgwick, Moore / John Skorupski -- The problem with star dust: Spencer''s psychology and William James / Mark Francis -- Spencer, cognition, fiction / Vanessa L. Ryan -- Herbert Spencer and Lamarckism / Peter J. Bowler -- Spencer's British disciples / Bernard Lightman.
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