Benjamin Kidd. Portrait Of A Social Darwinist

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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press
Publisher Place: Cambridge
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: First Edition

Description: 460 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 0521258049

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460 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

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