Herbert Spencer - Brossura

Mingardi, Alberto

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1441164995 ISBN 13: 9781441164995

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Riassunto

This volume makes a compelling case for the continued relevance and significance of Herbert Spencer (1820-1904), one of the foremost intellectuals of the Victorian era whose work now tends to be regarded as being of purely historical interest.

One of the originators of the evolutionary classical liberal or libertarian approach exemplified later by F. A. Hayek, Spencer engaged with such issues as the relationship between the individual and the state; the nature of majoritarian democracy; the legitimacy of private property; the consequences of the transition from relatively simple, feudal communities to complex, industrial societies; and the causes of war and the prospects of international peace. For him the future was individualist. However, as the scope of state action expanded and classical liberal ideas became increasingly marginalised during the course of his life, Spencer grew ever more pessimistic about the future prospects for liberty.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alberto Mingardi is Director General of the Istituto Bruno Leoni (Milan) and an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute (Washington, DC). His last book was L'intelligenza del denaro. Perché il mercato ha ragione anche quando ha torto (2013).

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Book by Mingardi Alberto

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1441164995
• ISBN 13: 9781441164995
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 180