Global Spencerism : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist

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Global Spencerism : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist

Title remainder

the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist

Statement of responsibility

edited by Bernard Lightman

Contributor

• Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

Editor

• Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

Subject

• Evolution
• Evolution
• PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Modern
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903

Language

eng

Summary

Today the name most closely associated with evolutionary theory is Charles Darwin. Given Darwin¿́¿s immense reputation it is easy to forget that Herbert Spencer, in his time, was just as famous as Darwin. It turns out that Spencer¿́¿s evolutionary thought was not what necessarily appealed to many of his readers, since they had their own sense of his identity and importance. By focusing on Spencer the evolutionist, scholars have tended to concentrate their attention on a rather narrow view of him that has come out of Anglo-American appropriations of his thought. Spencer was one of the first international, public intellectuals whose views on psychology, religion, sociology, ethics, education, and biology captured the imagination of readers all over the world. The chapters will cover the communication and appropriation of Spencer¿́¿s ideas in Russia, the Middle East, China, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Italy, Scandinavia, and France. Contributors are: Li Bin, Juan Manuel Rodriguez Caso, Gowan Dawson, Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues, Marwa Elshakry, Mark Francis, G. Clinton Godart, Michael Gordon, Paola Govoni, Rosaura Ruiz Gutie¿¿rrez, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Adriana Novoa, Greg Radick, Nathalie Richard, Ke Zunke

Member of

• Cultural Dynamics of Science

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

192

Index

index present

LC call number

B1657

LC item number

.G56 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cultural Dynamics of Science