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LEADER: 01891cam a22003014a 4500
001 2006032891
003 DLC
005 20151205080755.0
008 061002s2007 nyuaf b 001 0beng c
010 $a 2006032891
020 $a9780801445903 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0801445906 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm72161868
035 $a(OCoLC)72161868
040 $aNIC/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aB1656$b.F73 2007
082 00 $a192$aB$222
100 1 $aFrancis, Mark,$d1944-
245 10 $aHerbert Spencer and the invention of modern life /$cMark Francis.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2007.
300 $axiv, 434 p., [12] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 411-426) and index.
505 0 $aI: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.
600 10 $aSpencer, Herbert,$d1820-1903.
650 0 $aPhilosophers, Modern$zEngland$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032891.html