This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society. It is influenced by Foucault, by recent work in the history and sociology of science, by critical theory, and by cultural anthropology. The author analyses the impact of science on Victorian society across a spectrum from the intellectual establishment to working-class freethinkers and Owenite socialists. In doing so he provides the first extended treatment of the place and role of science among working-class radicals. The book also challenges attempts to establish neat demarcations between scientific ideas and their philosophical, theological and social contexts.
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This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society. It is influenced by Foucault, by recent work in the history and sociology of science, by critical theory, and by cultural anthropology.
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Historical interest in phrenology is almost as old as phrenology itself, and in many ways its study is as revealing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, George Combe, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Combe, Allegorical Christianity, New Lanark, Philosophical Magazine, London Institution, Robert Chambers, Robert Owen, Sir George, Charles Bray, Hawkes Smith, Reform Bill, Richard Carlile, Sir William Hamilton, Charles Cowan, Francis Jeffrey, Harmony Hall, Harriet Martineau, Hewett Watson, James Mill, John Gordon, New Plan, Phrenological Association New!
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Historical interest in phrenology is almost as old as phrenology itself, and in many ways its study is as revealing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, George Combe, Edinburgh Review, Andrew Combe, Allegorical Christianity, New Lanark, Philosophical Magazine, London Institution, Robert Chambers, Robert Owen, Sir George, Charles Bray, Hawkes Smith, Reform Bill, Richard Carlile, Sir William Hamilton, Charles Cowan, Francis Jeffrey, Harmony Hall, Harriet Martineau, Hewett Watson, James Mill, John Gordon, New Plan, Phrenological Association New!
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- Natural Laws of Man: A Philosophical Catechism by J. G. Spurzheim on 4 pages
- Elements of Phrenology by George Combe in Table of Contents, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 by Richard D. Altick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914 by Alfred Kelly in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Letters of Karl Marx by Saul K. Padover on page 37, and Back Matter
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- Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-1934 (Eastern European Studies Number Twenty-Two) by Dr. James T. Andrews Ph.D in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Console-ing Passions) by Jeffrey Sconce in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Alan Richardson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Self-Help and Civic Culture: Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham by Anne Baltz Rodrick on page 27, and Back Matter
- George Eliot And Nineteenth-century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country (Nineteenth Century Series) (Nineteenth Century Series) by Michael Davis on page 12
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