Men Versus the State
Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 20 February 1992
- ISBN 9780198202394
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 224x144x23 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Men Versus the State is a study of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of thinkers inspired by Spencer to uphold the policy of laissez-faire during the 1880s and 1890s, whose important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate has been hitherto neglected by historians.
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Men Versus the State is a study both of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer (considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of Victorian Britain) and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of political thinkers inspired by him to uphold the policy of laissez-faire during the 1880s and 1890s. Despite their important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate, these thinkers have been neglected by historians, who have concentrated on the advocates of an enhanced role for government in economic and social affairs. The Individualists were forceful critics of this tendency to expand the frontiers of the State. This, the first comprehensive study of their ideas, sheds new light on the nature of late Victorian political argument. The book also provides an original perspective on Spencer's political philosophy, which provided Individualism with much of its intellectual justification. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to set free-market conservatism in a historical context.
`tellingly augments what has become a wealth of scholarship on the character of political argument in Britain during the last decades of the nineteenth century ... his book is a valuable addition to the literature on late-Victorian political thought.'
American Historical Review, Oct 1993
Table of Contents:
Preface; The paradise lost of liberalism; Rivals to the Benthamite heritage; Progress and the struggle for existence; The formation of character; The organic conception of society; The individualist theory of history; The reworking of utilitarianism; Justice, property, and natural right; Individualism and conservatism; Select bibliography; Index
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