"The Making of Totalitarian Thought emphasizes the importance of previously neglected socio-political writing and neatly unpacks sophisticated intellectual ideas. This will be an indispensable guide for students and will make a contribution to debates on humankind and society."-…
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The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century reveal disturbing and uncomfortable facts about human nature, social life, and moral progress. Totalitarianism, ironically, came at a time when the 'spirit of modernity' was in full swing and human po tential was supposedly at it…
Michael Taylor provides a detailed and reliable modern survey of the whole corpus of Herbert Spencer's thought. He introduces a Spencer very different to his posthumous reputation.
Michael Taylor provides a detailed and reliable modern survey of the whole corpus of Herbert Spencer's thought. He introduces a Spencer very different to his posthumous reputation.
Michael Taylor provides a detailed and reliable modern survey of the whole corpus of Herbert Spencer's thought. He introduces a Spencer very different to his posthumous reputation.
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the i…
In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to the field, situate the fiel…
In this title, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays.
What are the roots of human nature and what is wrong with the scientific picture of what and who we are? Was Thomas Hobbes right to say that human life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?" In this new work, biologist Mary Clark argues that the Western view of human na…
Now, with In Search of Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred yea…
