I: An individual and his personal culture
A portrait of a private man
Spencer's feminist politics
Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation
II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics
Intellectuals in the strand
Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century
From philosophy to psychology
III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science
On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things
Science and the classification of knowledge
IV: Politics and ethical sociology
Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism
The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism
Sociology as an ethical discipline
Sociology as political theory
Progress versus democracy.
