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...Nikita Harwich Vallenilla * The ideas for this paper originated from a series of seminars on Venezuelan positivism taught by the author during a visiting professorship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the Maison des Pays Ibériques in Bordeaux in Apr.-June...

.... 168. 51 Love, Rio Grande , p. 154. 50 L. Sodré, Mensagem , pp. 42-43, makes special note of its advantages for him. 49 Nachman, “Brazilian Positivism,” p. 136. 48 The state constitution allowed reelection of the governor when he obtained three-quarters of the votes cast...

... in a totally neglected period; it put the documents (however few) before the reader; and it pointed to certain fundamental themes. Besides the relationship between positivism and liberalism in part one, one could cite Zea’s emphasis in part two upon the tie between the ideas of Justo Sierra’s La Libertad...

...William D. Raat 15 Zea, “El positivismo,” 248. 16 Zea, “Positivism and Porfirism,” 180. See also Zea’s Esquema , 20-22. 17 See Zea, “Positivism and Porfirism,” 180-183; Zea, “El positivismo,” 253-260; Zea, Esquema , 21-23; Zea, Apogeo y decadencia , 89-100. For Zea’s...

... Cuevas, author of El positivismo en México , as an advocate of Positivism when in actuality he was a clerical apologist who helped to lead Mexico’s anti-positivist crusade). This volume, the fourth publication of the Heath Problems in Latin American Civilization Series , contains sixteen readings...

.... There is overlapping, too; the reader will find that many points about the history of Positivism in Brazil are made in the general section on the history of the movement and repeated in the analysis of Positivism in the states. Most unfortunate of all is the omission of an index, which should have been considered...

...” when positivism was already triumphant in France. Indeed, rationalism and positivism were not widely accepted in the University until 1870 and 1880, respectively. The changes in ideological orientation are clearer in economics, international law, and constitutional law. At first the emphasis...

...Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico . By Hale Charles A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1990 . Bibliography. Index. xi , 291 pp. Cloth. $37.50 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Positivism...

... peruana y la evolución social (Lima, 1963), 87f. 11 González Prada, Páginas libres (1945), 174. 10 Manuel González Prada, Páginas litres (3d. ed., Lima, 1945), 66f. Por the best treatment of González Prada’s ideas, especially his ideas on science and Positivism, see Augusto Salazar...

... one aspect of an important trend among Mexicanists toward the redefinition, if not the revision, of these ideas. Professor Raat is especially concerned about the loose manner in which the term “positivism” has been used synonymously with “scientism.” He believes that the definition of the former term...

... liberalism is seen in later positivism in Mexico, which resulted in a transformed liberalism by 1880, seeking social reconstruction and regeneration rather than the removal of obstacles to individual freedom. James Scobie, University of California, viewed liberalism in Argentina as a Zeitgeist...

... pensamiento en Hispano-américa , it renews the belief in independence and nationalism as a great historical divide. Running from romanticism to positivism Zea has devoted almost all the book to the great pensadores of the 19th century. The point of view and arrangement of the illustrated authors serves...

... of the study of Latin America. Leopoldo Zea’s studies have constantly displayed originality, academic rigor, a personal involvement, commitment to his subject matter, creativity, and diversity in the themes addressed. His classic works on positivism in Mexico, El positivismo en México and Apogeo y...

... that positivism, in its institutional form, ultimately failed to respond to the changing interests and ambitions of Argentine students. González’s emphasis on scientific research and the cultivation of a small student elite over broader professional training became points of frustration for those who wished...

... of the liberal party in that year signified the transition from the negative, theological stage in Mexican history to the positive, scientific stage. Barredas adaptation of Auguste Comte’s philosophical system, positivism, further prescribed a liberal political order that would liberate the forces of material...

... translated into Italian, German, and French. In the essay “Arosemena,” the author maintains that positivism sui generis appeared in Latin America simultaneously with and independently of Comte’s writing in Europe. The Panamanian, Justo Arosemena, is pointed out as a prime example of native positivism...

...) of the major writings by and about the “fundadores” of Latin American philosophy. According to the criterion set up originally by the late Francisco Romero of Argentina, the “fundadores” in question are those Latin American thinkers who flourished during the crucial period of transition from positivism to anti...

... contributes, particularly, to broadening the scope of what positivism really meant in Venezuela as a method of analysis: not merely the application of the doctrines of Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer, but the eclectic use of a wide range of current works on the social sciences as a whole. Gil Fortoul did...

... (Mexico City, 1979), 49. This work contains a large bibliography devoted to positivism. I say so little about positivism here for reasons of space. 5 This article represents an early stage of a larger project that will aim to trace the origins of the civil war in Argentina during the 1970s. 4...

... is on the ideas of José Ortega y Gasset, once a sojourner in Argentina. The second section treats the history of ideas between the 1830s and 1910, and identifies trends, intellectuals, and institutions. The author’s framework of ideas includes romantic liberalism, native positivism, rationalism, spiritualism...