The Philosophy of Style

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The Floating Press, 2009/04/01 - 45 ページ
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.
 

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I The Principle of Economy
5
II Economy in the Use of Words
10
III The Principle of Economy Applied to Sentences
16
IV The Principle of Economy Applied to Figures
33
V Suggestion as a Means of Economy
44
VI The Effect of Poetry Explained
47
PART II
54
I The Law of Mental Exhaustion and Repair
55
II Explanation of Climax Antithesis and Anticlimax
58
III Need of Variety
62
IV The Ideal Writer
65
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Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher-scientist, was---with the anthropologists Edward Burnett Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan---one of the three great cultural evolutionists of the nineteenth century. A contemporary of Charles Darwin (see Vol. 5), he rejected special creation and espoused organic evolution at about the same time. He did not, however, discover, as did Darwin, that the mechanism for evolution is natural selection. He was immensely popular as a writer in England, and his The Study of Sociology (1873) became the first sociology textbook ever used in the United States. With the recent revival of interest in evolution, Spencer may receive more attention than he has had for many decades.

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