Alberto Mingardi

Herbert Spencer (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441108302
• Artikelnr.: 38305091

Autorenporträt

Alberto Mingardi is Associate Professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan, Italy. He is also Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University and an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute, USA. He blogs at EconLog. He published critical editions of Thomas Hodgskin, Elie Kedourie, Vilfredo Pareto, and Herbert Spencer.