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Herbert Spencer and Social Theory

✍ Scribed by John Offer (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
383
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-26
Early Spencer: Influences and Ideas....Pages 27-61
Middle Spencer: Towards a Tapestry of the World....Pages 62-95
Later Spencer: Crafting the Principles of Sociology, and Losing Hold....Pages 96-136
Evolution and Mind....Pages 137-160
Mind and Society....Pages 161-195
The Social Organism....Pages 196-222
Militant and Industrial Social Types....Pages 223-252
Understanding Music....Pages 253-274
Sociology, Ethics and Well-Being....Pages 275-305
Concluding Reflections....Pages 306-327
Back Matter....Pages 328-375

✦ Subjects

Social Theory; Social History; Cultural History; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Science

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