The Worlds of Positivism A Global Intellectual History, 1770-1930 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Feichtinger, Johannes (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fillafer, Franz L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Surman, Jan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: World history.; Intellectual life-History.; History.; Philosophy.; Europe-History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Intellectual Studies.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; European History.

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 enlighte...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Particularizing Positivism
• I. Empires of Positivism
• 2. Striking a Chord: The Reception of Comte's Positivism in Colonial India
• 3. Positivism, Revolution and History in Brazil
• 4. Positivism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The "Young Turks" as Mediators and Multipliers
• II. Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism
• 5. An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain
• 6. Trading Epistemological Insults: "Positive Knowledge" and Natural Science in Germany, 1800-1850
• 7. The French Philosophical Crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the "Positivist School"
• III. The Liberal Politics of Science and Society
• 8. Habsburg Positivism: The Politics of Positive Knowledge in Imperial and Post-Imperial Austria, 1804-1938
• 9. The Contexts of Early Polish Positivisms, 1840s-1900s
• 10. Positivism in Late Tsarist Russia: Its Introduction, Penetration and Diffusion
• IV. Positivist Aftermath
• 11. Positivism in the Northern Peripheries: Generations of Positivist Philosophers in Sweden and Its Neighboring Countries
• 12. Dilthey and Carnap: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Elimination of Metaphysics
• 13. Epilogue: The Worlds of Positivism: An Analytical Synopsis.