The complete online text of The Philosophy of Style by Herbert Spencer.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in the development of economics, political sci...

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in the development of economics, political science, biolog...

In the 1860s and 1870s Herbert Spencer was the foremost living English philosopher. But he was so speculative that by 1880 in England his works rivaled those of Charles Darwin or John Stuart Mill only among libertarians and readers astonished by his inge...

What are the relations, if any, between philosophy and literary style? Lang asserts "that the 'literariness' of philosophical writing is not accidental or ornamental but unavoidable--imbedded in that discourse and so also in its substantive questions and proposed solutions" (p. 3). Lang attempts...

Shortly after bound galleys of this book began to circulate, I received a call from someone who was writing a profile of Meyer Schapiro for a national weekly. She wondered whether I had known Schapiro at Columbia, as indeed I had, for he...