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Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics
Luca FioritoCosma Emilio Orsisubject
Value (ethics)Economics and EconometricsHistoryPsychoanalysisEugenics060106 history of social sciencesCriminologyFormative assessmentEugenics;IndividualismEugenicThomas nixon carver;0502 economics and businessRealmEugenicsProgressive era0601 history and archaeologySociology050207 economicsSettore SECS-P/04 - STORIA DEL PENSIERO ECONOMICO05 social sciencesWorld War II06 humanities and the artsSocial justiceLiberalismThomas nixon carverdescription
The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought—from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical coordinates of Carver's “new liberalism”—his own definition—and how this broad vision was intrinsically connected with an explicitly hierarchical and eugenic approach to human nature. Just as important, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the extent in which eugenic considerations permeated the realm of political economy during the first decades of the last century and how, in some specific cases as that of Carver, this influence persisted after the end of the Progressive era.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2017-09-01 |