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Foreword
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Robert Pinker
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- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements iv
- Foreword v
- Introduction 1
- ‘Virtue’ and the poor law in Britain and Ireland in the 1830s 11
- Spencer and a liberal road to welfare: the eclipse of a vision 29
- Free agent or ‘conscious automaton’? The individual in Spencer’s social theory 53
- The case of older people: social thought and divergent prescriptions for care 75
- Social policy and idealist versus non-idealist thought: the fundamental schism 95
- Idealist thought, social policy and the rediscovery of informal care 129
- Social theory and voluntary action in Britain since 1880 149
- Epilogue: from poor law to Labour’s ‘new idealism’ 167
- Notes 183
- References 197
- Index 215
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Acknowledgements iv
- Foreword v
- Introduction 1
- ‘Virtue’ and the poor law in Britain and Ireland in the 1830s 11
- Spencer and a liberal road to welfare: the eclipse of a vision 29
- Free agent or ‘conscious automaton’? The individual in Spencer’s social theory 53
- The case of older people: social thought and divergent prescriptions for care 75
- Social policy and idealist versus non-idealist thought: the fundamental schism 95
- Idealist thought, social policy and the rediscovery of informal care 129
- Social theory and voluntary action in Britain since 1880 149
- Epilogue: from poor law to Labour’s ‘new idealism’ 167
- Notes 183
- References 197
- Index 215