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Man with a Plan.(Herbert Spencer)(Biography)
The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty-two-year-old English philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as "Social Statics" and "The Data of Ethics" were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez-faire capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural order. "Survival of the fittest"--a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer--made free competition a social as well as a natural law. Andrew ...
- Herbert Spencer; a Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 2 vols.
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Carneiro, Robert L. September 1, 1996 700+ words
...for during much of this century Herbert Spencer has been remembered for his outmoded...now comes Robert G. Perrin's Herbert Spencer, a primary and secondary bibliography...fatal'. No serious student of Herbert Spencer will henceforth be able to do...
- Francis, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Schaefer, David June 1, 2008 700+ words
FRANCIS, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life...century English intellectual Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) is remembered at...Constitution "does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics." Mark Francis...
- In defense of Herbert Spencer.(CONTROVERSY)(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Hocutt, Max January 1, 2008 700+ words
...nineteenth-century intellectual giant Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics in two...introduction by Tibor R. Machan. Spencer's magnificent tome is full of...more questionable. Calling it "Herbert Spencer: A Century Later," Machan begins...
- Cults of Ignorance.("Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist...
- Magazine article from: National Review AESCHLIMAN, M. D. May 5, 2003 700+ words
...Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget...Egan (Yale, 224 pp., $25) 'Spencer is unreadable today," the literary...acknowledged expert upon it." Indeed, Herbert Spencer's ideological mix of naive empiricism...
- Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Kent, Christopher September 22, 2008 700+ words
...pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life...Invention of Modern Life" in Herbert Spencer's. These two men, born only...finally head of Lincoln College. Spencer, the son of a Methodist school...
- Herbert Spencer's sociology. (reprint, 1965).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2008 700+ words
9780202361673 Herbert Spencer's sociology. (reprint, 1965) Rumney, Jay. AldineTransaction...357 pages $39.95 Paperback HM585 Originally published for Herbert Spencer's trustees by Williams and Norgate (1934, London), Rumney...
- Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Kelly, Paul June 1, 1999 700+ words
...Weinstein's excellent new study of Herbert Spencer makes a similar revisionist claim...then the same can be done for Spencer, Weinstein claims. The book is...a contextualist interpreter of Spencer. He certainly connects his interpretation...
- Obituary.(Herbert Spencer )(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Design Week Dempsey, Mike March 21, 2002 700+ words
Herbert Spencer 1924-2002 The graphic designer, author and teacher Herbert Spencer was a lifelong champion of the modernist approach to typography, he became...
