An Intelligent Philistine
Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85728-219-1 (ISBN)
Description
A biography of one of the pre-eminent British philosophers and psychologists of the Victorian age. This book is intended for historians of science and social sciences; 19th-century intellectual history; cultural history; and the history of ideas, philosophy and political thought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85728-219-1 (9781857282191)
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Content
The education of Herbert Spencer; The hatred of "culture"; Science and the structure of knowledge; Naturalism; Evolution; Psychology; Biology: the shape of life; Religion; "An almost passionless consciousness": Spencer as a social scientist; Spencer as a social and political critic; A late Victorian ethos.