Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Cultural Dynamics of Science
The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Cultural Dynamics of Science
ISBN: 978-90-04-26399-4
Verlag: Brill
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 readers, since they had their own sense of his identity and importance. By focusing on Spencer the evolutionist, scholars have tended to concentrate their attention on a rather narrow view of him that has come out of Anglo-American appropriations of his thought.
Spencer was one of the first international, public intellectuals whose views on psychology, religion, sociology, ethics, education, and biology captured the imagination of readers all over the world. The chapters will cover the communication and appropriation of Spencer’s ideas in Russia, the Middle East, China, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Italy, Scandinavia, and France.
Contributors are: Lin Bin, Juan Manuel Rodriguez Caso, Gowan Dawson, Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues, Marwa Elshakry, Mark Francis, G. Clinton Godart, Michael Gordon, Paola Govoni, Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Adriana Novoa, Greg Radick, Nathalie Richard, Ke Zunke
Zielgruppe
All interested in the history of evolutionary thought and in the global circulation of ideas.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
Weitere Infos & 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 Rodríguez 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