Herbert Spencer

A revised edition of the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography, illustrated with many iconic examples.

Pioneers of Modern Typography

Kieran Egan

Jean Piaget

John Dewey

The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in 'Getting It Wrong from the Beginning'. Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.

Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning

With Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom

The Man Versus the State

Social Statics; or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed

The Data of Ethics

"Legibility research in printing is concerned with the efficiency of the visible word. So, too, is the practice of typographical design. During the past century both researchers and designers have put forward proposals for making printed letters communicate more efficiently. This report describes and illustrates some of the more significant of these proposals." --Author; Introduction, page 6.

The Visible Word

The Principles of Biology, Vols 1-2

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era. In his work The Philosophy of Style he argues that written language should be as easy to understand as possible, allowing for the most effective and efficient possible communication. His suggestions for sentence structure supported ideas on formalist rhetoric.

The Philosophy of Style

First Principles

The Man Versus the State, by English libertarian, and sociologist, Herbert Spencer, was originally published in 1884. Originally the work consisted of four chapters. The New Toryism, The Coming Slavery, The Sins of Legislators and The Great Political Superstition. To which, more recently the essays Freedom from Bondage, and Over-Legislation, as well as a postcript and an Introduction by Albert Jay Nock have been added. In the book Spencer sees a statist corruption coming from within the liberal ideological framework, warning of a coming slavery. He argues for liberalism, however, stating that the new love liberalism has for the State would place liberalism within the realm of a new despotism, worse than the previous one. Henry Hazlitt commented that this was "One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written."

An Essay

Philosophy of Style

The Principles of Sociology

Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed

Social Statics

The Principles of Psychology

Principles of Sociology

Works

“The” Principles of Sociology: pt. Iv. Ceremonial institutions. pt. v. Political institutions. pt. VI. Ecclesiastical institutions. pt. VII. Professional institutions. pt. VIII. Industrial institutions

Being Part IV of the Principles of Sociology (the First Portion of Vol. II)

Ceremonial Institutions

pt. II. The inductions of sociology. pt. III. Domestic institutions

Herbert Spencer

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