Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores the impact of the work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction Mark Francis 2. The method of nature: Herbert Spencer and the education of the adaptive mind Stephen Tomlinson 3. Herbert Spencer: nineteenth-century politics and twentieth-century individualism Michael W. Taylor 4. Herbert Spencer's sociological legacy Jonathan H. Turner 5. Containing multitudes: Herbert Spencer, organisms social and orders of individuality James Elwick 6. Herbert Spencer, biology, and the social sciences in Britain Chris Renwick 7. Spencer and the moral philosophers: Mill, Sidgwick, Moore John Skorupski 8. The problem with star dust: Spencer's psychology and William James Mark Francis 9. Spencer, cognition, fiction Vanessa L. Ryan 10. Herbert Spencer and Lamarckism Peter J. Bowler 11. Spencer's British disciples Bernard Lightman. Index