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Author Priego, Natalia, author.

Title Positivism, science, and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico : a reappraisal / Natalia Priego.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Liverpool Latin American Studies, New Series ; 15
Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary <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>
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Subject Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910.
Mexico.
History.
Chronological Term 1867-1910
Subject Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1867-1910.
Politics and government.
Intellectual life.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Chronological Term 1800-1910
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Priego, Natalia. Positivism, science, and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016 1781382565 (DLC) 2016303702 (OCoLC)945485672
ISBN 9781781384381 (electronic book)
178138438X (electronic book)
1781382565
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