Benjamin Kidd: Portrait of a Social Darwinist - Brossura

Crook, D

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ISBN 10: 0521107350 ISBN 13: 9780521107358

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This is an intellectual biography of Benjamin Kidd, a leading Social Darwinist in the years before World War I, and a social prophet in the tradition of Comte and Spencer. His first book Social Evolution, published in 1894, was an immediate and enormous success around the world. In it, Kidd developed a collectivist form of Social Darwinism in tune with the values of Progressivism in America and the 'new liberalism' in Britain. By many it was regarded as the basis for a properly scientific sociology, and the combination of its claims to scientific methodology, with an emphasis on non-rational forces as the agents of progress accurately caught the temper of its times. Launched on his career as a writer, Kidd's subsequent books and journalism continued to exercise extraordinary influence. His 'social imperialism', linking a bio-political defence of empire with a programme of social reform, won currency in the Anglo-American world at a time of expansionary fervour.

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This is an intellectual biography of Benjamin Kidd, a leading Social Darwinist in the years before World War I, and a social prophet in the tradition of Comte and Spencer.

Contenuti:

1. Social evolution; 2. The control of the tropics; 3. Principles of western civilization; 4. Tariff reform; 5. Individualism and after; 6. The science of power.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521107350
• ISBN 13: 9780521107358
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 472