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

Other author Francis, Mark, 1944- editor.
Other author Taylor, Michael, 1962- editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Description1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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