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- Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
"The most systematic and comprehensive effort yet made to assess the role played by Darwinian ideas in the writings of English-speaking social theorists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries."
--Isis
"In seeking to set the record straight, Bannister cuts through the amalgam with an intellectual shredder, exposing the illogic and incompatibility involved in fusing Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species with Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.... Bannister's familiarity with relevant texts and their reception by contemporary social theorists, scholars, and critics on both sides of the Atlantic is impressive."
--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"A fine contribution to Anglo-American intellectual history."
--Journal of American History
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xxxi
- 1. The Scientific Background
- pp. 14-33
- 2. Hushing Up Death
- pp. 34-56
- 4. Amending the Faith
- pp. 79-96
- 5. William Graham Sumner
- pp. 97-113
- 7. Neo-Darwinism and the Crisis of the 1890s
- pp. 137-163
- 8. A Pigeon Fanciers' Polity
- pp. 164-179
- 9. The Scaffolding of Progress
- pp. 180-200
- 10. The Nietzsche Vogue
- pp. 201-211
- 12. Imperialism and the Warriar Critique
- pp. 226-242
- Epilogue: From Histrionics to History
- pp. 243-251
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439906057
Related ISBN(s)
9780877221555, 9780877225669
MARC Record
OCLC
650106789
Pages
334
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1989