Editors:
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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Front Matter
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Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism
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Front Matter
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The Liberal Politics of Science and Society
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
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Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Johannes Feichtinger
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Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Franz L. Fillafer
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University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Jan Surman
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