Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) is remembered today only as an alleged
Social Darwinist who applied the theory of the survival of the
fittest to society. Yet he was among the most influential and
widely-read philosophers of the nineteenth century. There were few
Victorian thinkers and scientists who did not know his work, and
who did not formulate their own positions partly in reaction to
his. Michael Taylor's book provides the only detailed and reliable
modern survey of the whole corpus of Spencer's thought. Taylor
introduces a Spencer very different to his posthumous reputation:
not primarily a political philosopher, but the architect of a
comprehensive philosophical system that aimed to demonstrate the
inevitability of human perfection through universal natural laws.
He also locates the Synthetic Philosophy firmly in its place and
time by showing how it developed out of the concerns of a group of
like-minded British writers and thinkers during the 1850s. This
book will be of interest to historians of philosophy and of
science, to social scientists, to scholars and students of
nineteenth century literature, and to anyone who wishes to
understand one of most important figures in Victorian intellectual
life.
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