David Duncan

The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on his correspondence, a 1908 biography of one of the late nineteenth century's most influential and controversial thinkers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9781108066815
• ISBN-10: 110806681X
• Artikelnr.: 40047828

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Family history and parentage
2. Childhood and youth
3. Engineering
4. Literature wooed, but not won
5. Engineering once more
6. His first book
7. A new psychology
8. The unification of knowledge
9. First principles
10. Biology
11. Sunshine and shadow
12. Psychology and descriptive sociology
13. The study of sociology
14. Distaste for honours and ceremonial
15. The secularization of morals
16. Egypt and America
17. A political creed for true liberalism
18. Religious discussion
19. The factors of organic evolution
20. In defence of freedom and justice
21. Altruism as a factor in social evolution
22. Latter day controversies
23. Completing the synthetic philosophy
24. Congratulations
25. Revision of Biology and First Principles
26. Inorganic evolution
27. His last book
28. The close of life
29. Characteristics and personal reminiscences
30. Spencer's place in the history of thought
Appendices
Index.