Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
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Languages : en
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THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE
Author: Herbert SpencerThe Man Versus the State
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781099196867
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Man Versus the State, by English libertarian, and sociologist, Herbert Spencer, was originally published in 1884. Originally the work consisted of four chapters. The New Toryism, The Coming Slavery, The Sins of Legislators and The Great Political Superstition. To which, more recently the essays Freedom from Bondage, and Over-Legislation, as well as a postcript and an Introduction by Albert Jay Nock have been added. In the book Spencer sees a statist corruption coming from within the liberal ideological framework, warning of a coming slavery. He argues for liberalism, however, stating that the new love liberalism has for the State would place liberalism within the realm of a new despotism, worse than the previous one. Henry Hazlitt commented that this was "One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written."
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
Author: Mark FrancisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131749346X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will be required reading for all students of the period.
Herbert Spencer: the Man and His Work
Author: Hector Carsewell MacphersonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Herbert Spencer
Author: Hector MacphersonPublisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Herbert Spencer
Author: Hector MacPhersonMen Versus the State
Author: Michael TaylorPublisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book is a study both of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer (considered by many Victorians to be the greatest philosopher of their age) and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of political thinkers inspired by him to uphold the policy of laisses-faire during the 1880s and 1890s. Despite their important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate, these thinkers have been neglected by historians, who have concentrated on the advocates of an enhanced role for government in economic and social affairs. The Individualists were forceful critics of this tendency to extend the frontiers of the State. This, the first comprehensive study of their ideas, sheds new light on the nature of late Victorian political argument. The book also provides an original perspective on Spencer's political philosophy, which provided Individualism with much of its intellectual justification. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to see free-market conservatism in a historical context.
The Principles of Ethics
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer
Author: David DuncanPublisher:
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Presents a biography of the British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer, who was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid nineteenth century and his reputation rivaled that of Charles Darwin. This story of his life is based on selected correspondence and previously unpublished papers.
Author: Herbert Spencer