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Herbert Spencer : legacies / edited by Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1844655873
  • 9781844655878
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 192 23
  • 301.092 23
LOC classification:
  • B1657 .H474 2015
Contents:
The method of nature : Herbert Spencer and the education of the adaptive mind / Stephen Tomlinson -- Herbert Spence r: 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.
Summary: "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. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore Spencer's nuanced and complex ideas and will be invaluable for historians of science and ideas, and all those interested in the intellectual culture of the late Victorian and Edwardian period."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The method of nature : Herbert Spencer and the education of the adaptive mind / Stephen Tomlinson -- Herbert Spence r: 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.

"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. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore Spencer's nuanced and complex ideas and will be invaluable for historians of science and ideas, and all those interested in the intellectual culture of the late Victorian and Edwardian period."--Back cover.

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