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(2018) The worlds of positivism, Dordrecht, Springer.
An enlightened path to positivism?
reflections on the institutionalization of science in Bourbon Spain
Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas , Sara Muniain Ederra
pp. 111-135
This chapter analyzes the evolving institutional base for modern science in Spain, beginning with the late-seventeenth-century novatores and ending with the flourishing of Krausopositivism in the period between the First Republic and the Spanish Civil War (1868–1936). Such a longue-durée approach builds upon a critical examination of the significance of "proto-positivist" conditions, which, according to Carlos-Ulises Moulines, resulted from the intersection of French Cartesianism and British empiricism. The authors trace the broadly defined "proto-positivism" that prevailed in various political, economic, cultural, and artistic projects sponsored by the ideologues of the Spanish monarchy throughout the eighteenth century and connect the strength of anti-encyclopédisme during the reign of Charles III to the non-materialistic variety of positivism that continued to shape nineteenth-century Spain.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65762-2_5
Full citation:
Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, J. , Muniain Ederra, S. (2018)., An enlightened path to positivism?: reflections on the institutionalization of science in Bourbon Spain, in J. Feichtinger, F. L. Fillafer & J. Surman (eds.), The worlds of positivism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 111-135.
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