The Worlds of Positivism - A Global Intellectual History, 1770-1930 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Johannes Feichtinger • Franz Leander Fillafer • Jan Surman
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	367
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-65761-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-65761-5
Barcode:	9783319657615

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