Introduction

particularizing positivism

Johannes Feichtinger, Jan Surman

1-27

Striking a chord

the reception of Comte's positivism in colonial Losev

Géraldine Forbes

31-51

Positivism, revolution, and history in Brazil

Elias J. Palti

53-80

Positivism in the late ottoman empire

the "young turks" as mediators and multipliers

M. Sait Özervarlı

81-108

An enlightened path to positivism?

reflections on the institutionalization of science in Bourbon Spain

Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, Sara Muniain Ederra

111-135

Trading epistemological insults

"positive knowledge" and natural science in Germany, 1800–1850

Denise Phillips

137-154

The French philosophical crisis of the 1860s and the invention of the "positivist school"

Nathalie Richard

155-188

Habsburg positivism

the politics of positive knowledge in imperial and post-imperial austria, 1804–1938

Johannes Feichtinger

191-238

The contexts of early Polish positivisms, 1840s–1900s

Jan Surman

239-272

Positivism in late tsarist Russia

its introduction, penetration, and diffusion

Thomas Nemeth

273-291

Positivism in the northern peripheries

generations of positivist philosophers in sweden and its neighboring countries

Johan Strang

295-320

Dilthey and Carnap

the feeling of life, the scientific worldview, and the elimination of metaphysics

Eric S. Nelson

321-346

The worlds of positivism

an analytical synopsis

Johannes Feichtinger

349-356