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The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a
colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of
Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging
as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and
psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over
thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides
an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography
of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation
surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural
history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer,
the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an
authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of
this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary
printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human
being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique
attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological
and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern
Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in
Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only
dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but
shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth
century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will
be required reading for all students of the period.
The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a
colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of
Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging
as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and
psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over
thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides
an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography
of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation
surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural
history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer,
the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an
authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of
this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary
printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human
being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique
attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological
and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern
Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in
Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only
dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but
shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth
century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will
be required reading for all students of the period.
Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the
ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer
across a wide range of disciplines. In the course of the essays a
significant re-evaluation of his influence on Victorian and
Edwardian thought is provided. Spencer's contribution to the fields
of sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology and ecology are
considered, alongside his influence on key figures in science and
philosophy. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of
disciplines to explore Spencer's nuanced and complex ideas and will
be invaluable for historians of science and ideas, and all those
interested in the intellectual culture of the late Victorian and
Edwardian period. Contributors: Peter J. Bowler, James Elwick, Mark
Francis, Bernard Lightman, Chris Renwick, Vanessa L. Ryan, John
Skorupski, Michael W. Taylor, Stephen Tomlinson, and Jonathan H.
Turner
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Pop (Paperback)
Hal Foster; Edited by Mark Francis; Designed by Adam Hooper
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Discovery Miles 4 440
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From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any
example of art, film, photography and architectural design that
engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass
media. In addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton and many others, this
book includes works of photography and avant-garde film, as well as
what the critic Reyner Banham defined as pop architecture, ranging
from Alison and Peter Smithson's House of the Future to Archigram's
Walking City and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning
from Las Vegas.
Edited by an internationally recognized expert on Pop art and
culture, this book surveys Pop across all artforms and gives equal
coverage to its American, British and European manifestations.
Survey: renowned scholar and critic Hal Foster focuses on the Pop
image as it developed over the period: Reyner Banham, The
Independent Group and Pop Design; Richard Hamilton and the Tabular
Image; Roy Lichtenstein and the Screened Image; Andy Warhol and the
Seamy Image; Gerhard Richter and the Photogenic Image; Ed Ruscha
and the Cineramic Image; and, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown
and the Postmodern Absorption of Pop. Works: each image is
accompanied by an extended caption. This section is chronologically
sequenced: Revolt into Style (1956-60) surveys the birth of Pop
culture and its images, including the American Beat generation
artists, photographers and filmmakers; Jasper Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg, the French Decollageistes, Richard Hamilton and the
'British Pop' of the Independent Group. Consumer Culture (1960-63)
chronicles American Pop's explosion, from Roy Lichtenstein's
cartoon-based paintings to Claes Oldenburg's Store and Andy
Warhol's Factory. Colonization of the Mind (1963-66) looks at
American Pop's reception in Europe, in the work of Gerhard Richter,
Sigmar Polke and others. Spectacular Time (1966-67) surveys late
Pop developments, from Warhol's Silver Clouds to Malcolm Morley's
Photorealism. Helter Skelter (1968) documents Pop's demise and
transformation into postmodernism, in projects such as Robert
Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas.
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Public Space (Paperback, New)
Stephen Carr, Mark Francis, Leanne G. Rivlin, Andrew M. Stone
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R1,591
Discovery Miles 15 910
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This book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and
management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a
landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open
space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to
integrate public space and public life. They contend that three
critical human dimensions should guide the process of design and
management of public space: the users' essential needs, their
spatial rights, and the meanings they seek. To develop and explain
these three dimensions, the authors draw on the history of public
life and public space, evidence from recent social research, and a
series of original case studies, all amply illustrated. Public
Space offers an innovative approach for adapting the dimensions to
the unique social and environmental context of each project.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory,
the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day,
Spencer's works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in their
importance to the development of disciplines as wide-ranging as
sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy, and
psychology. Yet during his lifetime and certainly in the decades
that followed Spencer has been widely misunderstood. Both lauded
and disparaged as the father of Social Darwinism (it was Spencer
who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"), and as an
apologist for individualism and unrestrained capitalism, he was, in
fact, none of these; he was instead a subtle and complex thinker.In
his major new intellectual biography of Spencer, Mark Francis uses
archival material and contemporary printed sources to create a
fascinating portrait of a man who attempted to explain modern life
in all its biological, psychological, and sociological forms
through a unique philosophical and scientific system that bridged
the gap between empiricism and metaphysics. Vastly influential in
England and beyond particularly the United States and Asia his
philosophy was, as Francis shows, systematic and rigorous. Despite
the success he found in the realm of ideas, Spencer was an unhappy
man. Francis reveals how Spencer felt permanently crippled by the
Christian values he had absorbed during childhood, and was
incapable of romantic love, as became clear during his relationship
with the novelist George Eliot. Elegantly written, provocative, and
rich in insight, Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
is an exceptional work of scholarship that not only dispels the
misinformation surrounding Spencer but also illuminates the broader
cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth century."
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