The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) Book

This volume explores how Victorian philosophers scientists clergymen and novelists debated the meaning of the new term 'altruism'. Including a reappraisal of Charles Darwin's ideas and insights into the rise of popular socialism this study is highly relevant to contemporary debates about altruism evolution religion and ethics.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    In The Invention of Altruism, Thomas Dixon traces this new language of 'altruism' as it spread through British culture between the 1850s and the 1900s, and in doing so provides a new portrait of Victorian moral thought.Drawing attention to the...

  • 0197264263
  • 9780197264263
  • Thomas Dixon
  • 8 May 2008
  • OUP/British Academy
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 440
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