The Worlds of Positivism
A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
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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.
Presents the first global history of positivism
Explores the relationship between natural sciences and the humanities, science and religion, and universalism and cultural diversity on a global scale through Positivism’s culture of enquiry
Provides a geneaology of scientific governance, with important social and ethical implications for today
Appeals to scholars of intellectual history, global history, transnational history, sociology, and philosophy
Presents the first global history of positivism Explores the relationship between natural sciences and the humanities, science and religion, and universalism and cultural diversity on a global scale through Positivism’s culture of enquiry Provides a geneaology of scientific governance, with important social and ethical implications for today Appeals to scholars of intellectual history, global history, transnational history, sociology, and philosophy
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Johannes Feichtinger
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Positivism Positivists Auguste Comte Comteanism Comtian positivism Transnationalism historical agency history of imperialism John Stuart Mill universalism history of positivism positivist tradition positivist school positivism in Brazil Ahmed Riza
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“This long-overdue collection represents the single best volume on positivism's remarkable influence throughout the world. The authors have done a stunning job of research and analysis. Every page brims with surprising revelations. I can't recommend this work highly enough.” (Mary Pickering, San José University, USA, author of Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography)
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