Originally published: 1998. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
PART I: DEFINING SOCIETY: ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Theories of Social Life: Utilitarianism, Communitarianism, Organicism -- From An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789; 1838)/ John Stuart Mill -- John Stuart Mill -- From An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy (1870)/ John Grote -- From Report to the County of Lanark (1821)/r Robert Owen -- From 'Art IV. -- The Social Organism' (1860)/ Herbert Spencer -- 2. Theories of the Market: Political Economy, Marginal Utility Theory, Socialist Economics -- From On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation (1817; 1821)/ David Ricardo -- From 'On the Definition of Political Economy' (1836)/ John Stuart Mill -- From 'The Postulates of English Political Economy No. 1' (1876)/ Walter Bagehot -- From The Theory of Political Economy (1871)/ William Stanley Jevons -- From England for All: The Text-Book of Democracy (1881)/ Henry Mayers Hyndman -- 3. Politics and Representation: Authoritarianism, Liberalism, Socialism -- From Chartism (1840)/ Thomas Carlyle -- From 'Anarchy and Authority' (1868)/ Matthew Arnold -- From On Liberty (1859) / John Stuart Mill -- The Manifesto of the Socialist League (1885) PART II: SCIENCE AND RELIGION -- 4. God and Nature: Evolutionary Theory -- From Principles of Geology. Volume I (1830)/ John William Colenso Charles Darwin -- From Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863)/ Thomas Henry Huxley -- From 'Art VII. On the Origin of Species ...' (1860)/ Samuel Wilberforce -- From 'The Study of Sociology. XIV. -- Preparation in Biology' (1873)/ Herbert Spencer -- 5. God and Reason: Biblical Scholarship -- From 'On the Interpretation of Scripture' (1860)/ Benjamin Jowett -- From The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862)/ John William Colenso PART IV: SEX AND GENDER -- 10. Defining the Norm -- From The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1857)/ John Addington Symonds Henry Havelock Ellis 11. Defining Women -- From The Women of England: Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits (n.d. 1843?)/ Sarah Stickney Ellis -- From Sesame and Lilies (1865)/ John Ruskin -- From The Subjection of Women (1869)/ John Stuart Mill 12. Defining Men -- From Homogenic Love and its Place in a Free Society (1894)/ Edward Carpenter -- From A Problem in Modern Ethics (1896)/ John Addington Symonds
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