Positivism, science, and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico : a reappraisal / / Natalia Priego [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Priego Natalia
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 972.08/14
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History 1867-1910; Mexico Intellectual life 19th century; Mexico Politics and government 1867-1910
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-169) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: <p>This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, but also scholars specializing in the history of ideas, philosophy and science. Unlike previous discussions of positivism in Latin America, this book presents a detailed analysis of the English thinker, Herbert Spencer's original works as a necessary gateway into the discussion of the thinking of 'The Scientists'. Its principal purpose is to revisit the influential thesis of Leopoldo Zea which proposed that 'The Scientists' throughout this period were Spencerian positivists.</p><p>This book offers a revisionist analysis of the original papers of 'The Scientists', Francisco Bulnes and Justo Sierra, as well as their political and philosophical ideas and activities. This analysis demonstrates that their eclectic discourses used the ideas of the American Social Darwinists, and those from Spencer, Darwin, August Comte, andother European writers, concluding that 'The Scientists' lacked a clear leader and had an ambivalent relationship with Díaz. It interprets 'The Scientists' not as 'heroes' or 'villains', but as men struggling to appropriate European philosophical advances into their quest to modernise Mexico.</p>
• Altri titoli varianti: Positivism, Science & 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico
• Titolo autorizzato: Positivism, science, and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico
• ISBN: 1-78694-544-4; 1-78138-438-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813236603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool Latin American studies ; ; new ser., 15.