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The Invention of Altruism
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Making Moral Meanings
2: Encounters with Positivism
3: Death and Immortality
4: The Darwinian Conscience
5: Herbert Spencer, The Radical
6: Poverty and the Ideal Self
7: Motherhood and the Ascent of Man
8: Egomania
Conclusion

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The Invention of Altruism is extremely useful, illuminating not just the spread of the terminology of altruism, its paradoxes and ambiguities and the several concepts understood by different groups to be contained within it, but also the broader intellectual contexts of the late-nineteenth century.
*Mark Blacklock, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century*

The Invention of Altruism is ambitious in scope, and full of suggestive discussion of important themes.
*Jose Harris, London Review of Books*

The Invention of Altruism is a big book which imparts a great deal of information about people, books, ideas and politics. Its substantial and varied range of material is skilfully handled through Dixon's lucid style and clearly stated methodology. Certainly one of the real joys of this book is how - rather like George Eliot in her effort to make literary realism render the complex web of life - it values a whole cast of protagonists, minor as well as major. Canonical figures such as Darwin and Spencer are joined by others of widely varying visibility. ... The journey is exhilarating and revealing, and encompasses figures rarely met in intellectual histories...In addition, in his book's boundless curiosity in following 'altruism' beyond the writers who normally dominate intellectual histories...Dixon also shows that intellectual history can be strikingly good cultural history.
*Carolyn Burdett, History Workshop Journal*

The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain is a rare scholarly treat. Serious and entertaining, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Victorians and reminds us that they are responsible for the ethical distinctions we make between altruism and egoism.
*Angelique Richardson, Critical Quarterly*

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