Overview
- 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism
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The Liberal Politics of Science and Society
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Epilogue
Keywords
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Franz L. Fillafer is Lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Jan Surman is Visiting Scholar at the Max Web Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Worlds of Positivism
Book Subtitle: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
Editors: Johannes Feichtinger, Franz L. Fillafer, Jan Surman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65762-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65761-5Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88099-0Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65762-2Published: 25 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 367
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Intellectual Studies, History of Science, History of Philosophy, European History