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Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

Author : Mark Francis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131749346X
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life written by Mark Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment

Author : William James
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment written by William James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment" by William James. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Rise of Anthropological Theory

Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759101333
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Anthropological Theory written by Marvin Harris and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition included the complete 1968 text plus a new introduction by Maxine Margolis, which discusses the impact of the book and highlights some of the major trends in anthropological theory since its original publication. RAT, as it is affectionately known to three decades of graduate students, comprehensively traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, culminating in a strong argument for the use of a scientific, behaviorally-based, etic approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism. Despite its popularity and influence on anthropological thinking, RAT has never been available in paperback_until now. It is an essential volume for the library of all anthropologists, their graduate students, and other theorists in the social sciences.

Darwin Deleted

Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226068676
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Darwin Deleted written by Peter J. Bowler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his "Origin of Species" and other works.--publisher summary.

Banquet at Delmonico's

Author : Barry Werth
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Banquet at Delmonico's written by Barry Werth and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand and sweeping history of ideas, "Banquet at Delmonico's" tells the intimate and dramatic story of how Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and a group of influential American allies together made evolution the guiding spirit of the Gilded Age.

Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics

Author : Beth L. Eddy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739198653
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics written by Beth L. Eddy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, culture critics who were readers of Darwin’s work on evolution pondered what the implications of natural selection might be for human culture, religion and ethics. American pragmatists, by and large, rejected a social Darwinian spin on ethics, economics, and theology in favor of a less determinate humanist version of the ethical implications that emphasized contingency and meliorism. The early arguments between T. H. Huxley and William Sumner over the issues mirrors the contemporary arguments between Stephen Jay Gould and others against “the New Atheists’” determinate interpretation of cultural implications which largely echo the social Darwinists’ position but in the current language of sociobiology. The work of pragmatists such as William James, George Santayana, Jane Addams, and John Dewey detail an evolutionary perspective that rejects the moral implications of social Darwinism.

A History of Western Political Thought

Author : J. S. McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134812108
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Political Thought written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinkers and texts * includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers * offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected * develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.

Mystery of Mysteries

Author : Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Michael Ruse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042980
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Mystery of Mysteries by : Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Michael Ruse

Download or read book Mystery of Mysteries written by Lucyle T Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Michael Ruse and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes "Mystery of Mysteries," an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. Michael Ruse begins with such colorful luminaries as Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and Julian Huxley (brother of novelist Aldous and grandson of T. H. Huxley, "Darwin's bulldog" ) and ends with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker--a microevolutionist who made his mark studying the mating strategies of dung flies--and the American paleontologist Jack Sepkoski, whose computer-generated models reconstruct mass extinctions and other macro events in life's history. Along the way Ruse considers two great popularizers of evolution, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as two leaders in the field of evolutionary studies, Richard Lewontin and Edward O. Wilson, paying close attention to these figures' cultural commitments: Gould's transplanted Germanic idealism, Dawkins's male-dominated Oxbridge circle, Lewontin's Jewish background, and Wilson's southern childhood. Ruse explicates the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science. Identifying strengths and weaknesses on both sides of the "science wars," he demonstrates that a resolution of the objective and subjective debate is nonetheless possible.

Public Opinion

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Darwin's Conjecture

Author : Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226346900
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Conjecture written by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical study dealing chiefly with matters of definition and clarification of terms and concepts involved in using Darwinian notions to model social phenomena.

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470971
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture by : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh

Download or read book Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

The Overland Monthly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Overland Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538928
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett written by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.

The Review of Reviews

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Herbert Spencer

Author : John Offer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415181860
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Spencer written by John Offer and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set traces Herbert Spencer's influence, from his contemporaries to the present day. Contributions come from across the social science disciplines and are often taken from sources which are difficult to access.

The Critic

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred Bovines

Author : Douglas Allchin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190490381
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Bovines written by Douglas Allchin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin draws on fascinating insights from science to illustrate the ironies in many widespread beliefs. Be prepared to challenge the notion that male and female are fixed natural categories. Or that evolution implies cutthroat competition in human society. Or that we struggle against a fundamental immoral nature. Or that genes establish our identity. Or that science progresses through rare leaps of genius. Or that politics and emotions inevitably taint good science. Sacred Bovines revels in revelations about the nature of science. Reflecting on the many errors in commonly accepted, everyday ideas also fosters creative thinking. How do we challenge assumptions? How do we "think outside the box"? The many examples here provide inspiration and guidance, further elaborated in a retrospective epilogue. An additional "Afterword for Teachers" highlights how the essays can foster learning about the nature of science and describes some practical classroom strategies.