Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire
This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ the philosopher's new science of sociology to dismantle the British Empire. With an aim to realise in its place Comte's global vision of utopian socialist republican city-states, the former Oxford don and ex-Anglican minister launched his Church of Humanity in 1859. Over the next forty years, Congreve engaged in some of the most pressing foreign and domestic controversies of his da…
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- ISBN: 978-3-030-83437-1
- EAN: 9783030834371
- Produktnummer: 37657050
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.5 cm 598 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 598
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Matthew Wilson is an intellectual historian and assistant professor of architectural history and theory at Ball State University. He has published widely on the British Positivist Movement.
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