The Worlds of Positivism (eBook)

Johannes Feichtinger is Senior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Visiting Professor for modern history and the philosophy of science at the University of Vienna, Austria.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.

1. Introduction: Particularizing PositivismI. Empires of Positivism2. Striking a Chord: The Reception of Comte's Positivism in Colonial India3. Positivism, Revolution and History in Brazil4. Positivism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The "Young Turks" as Mediators and MultipliersII. Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism5. An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain6. Trading Epistemological Insults: "Positive Knowledge" and Natural Science in Germany, 1800–18507. The French Philosophical Crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the "Positivist School"III. The Liberal Politics of Science and Society8. Habsburg Positivism: The Politics of Positive Knowledge in Imperial and Post-Imperial Austria, 1804–19389. The Contexts of Early Polish Positivisms, 1840s–1900s10. Positivism in Late Tsarist Russia: Its Introduction, Penetration and DiffusionIV. Positivist Aftermath11. Positivism in the Northern Peripheries: Generations of Positivist Philosophers in Sweden and Its Neighboring Countries12. Dilthey and Carnap: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Elimination of Metaphysics13. Epilogue: The Worlds of Positivism: An Analytical Synopsis