Global Spencerism : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist /

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Imprint:Boston : Brill, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Cultural Dynamics of Science
Cultural Dynamics of Science.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11908846
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Other authors / contributors:Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor.
ISBN:9789004264007
9004264000
9789004263994
9004263993
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Global Spencerism 9789004263994
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004264007