Global Spencerism : : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist / / edited by Bernard Lightman.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Dynamics of Science
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Bernard Lightman
- 1 “What a Go-a-Head People They Are!”: The Hostile Appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia / Michael D. Gordin
- 2 Spencer’s Arabic Readers / Marwa Elshakry
- 3 Spencerism in Japan: Boom and Bust of a Theory / G. Clinton Godart
- 4 Spencer and Science Education in China / Ke Zunke and Li Bin
- 5 The Reforming Spencerians: William James, Josiah Royce and John Dewey / Mark Francis
- 6 Spencer’s American Disciples: Fiske, Youmans, and the Appropriation of the System / Bernard Lightman
- 7 The Ideology of the “Survival of the Fittest” during the Porfiriato in Mexico / Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez , Ricardo Noguera Solano and Juan Manuel Rodriguez Caso
- 8 The Rise and Fall of Spencer’s Evolutionary Ideas in Argentina, 1870–1910 / Adriana Novoa
- 9 Spencerism in Brazil: An Introduction / Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues
- 10 The Importance of Being Quantified: Herbert Spencer in Liberal Italy, and Beyond / Paola Govoni
- 11 Education and Evolution: Appropriations of Herbert Spencer in Scandinavia, 1870–1920 / Hans Henrik Hjermitslev
- 12 A ‘Spencerian Moment’ in French Cultural History? Spencer in France (1870–1890) / Nathalie Richard
- Afterword / Gowan Dawson and Gregory Radick
- Selected Scholarly Works on Global Spencerism / Bernard Lightman
- Index / Bernard Lightman.