The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930Johannes Feichtinger, Franz L. Fillafer, Jan Surman Springer, 25.01.2018 - 367 Seiten This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned many. Uncovering these worlds of positivism, the volume ranges from India, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula to Central Europe, Russia, and Brazil, examining positivism’s impact as one of the most far-reaching intellectual movements of the modern world. Positivists reinvented science, claiming it to be distinct from and superior to the humanities. They predicated political governance on their refashioned science of society, and as political activists, they sought and often failed to reconcile their universalism with the values of multiculturalism. Providing a genealogy of scientific governance that is sorely needed in an age of post-truth politics, this volume breaks new ground in the fields of intellectual and global history, the history of science, and philosophy. |
Inhalt
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Part I Empires of Positivism | 28 |
The Reception of Comtes Positivism in Colonial India | 29 |
Chapter 3 Positivism Revolution and History in Brazil | 53 |
The Young Turks as Mediators and Multipliers | 81 |
Part II Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism | 109 |
Chapter 5 An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain | 110 |
Positive Knowledge and Natural Science in Germany 18001850 | 137 |
The Politics of Positive Knowledge in Imperial and PostImperial Austria 18041938 | 190 |
Chapter 9 The Contexts of Early Polish Positivisms 1840s1900s | 239 |
Its Introduction Penetration and Diffusion | 273 |
Part IV Positivist Aftermath | 292 |
Generations of Positivist Philosophers in Sweden and Its Neighboring Countries | 293 |
The Feeling of Life the Scientific Worldview and the Elimination of Metaphysics | 321 |
Part V Epilogue | 347 |
An Analytical Synopsis | 349 |
Chapter 7 The French Philosophical Crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the Positivist School | 155 |
Part III The Liberal Politics of Science and Society | 189 |
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