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... group whose appearances might belie their true intentions. But as the warning suggests, they were a particularly troublesome group to positivist thinkers. 110 See Consejo Nacional de Mujeres, “Acción concurrente de la mujer en la instrucción del pueblo. Medios que puede aun poner en práctica...

...). 58 Eulogistic pamphlets were often published upon the retirement or death of professors. In reviewing those dealing with positivists, it is clear that by early in the twentieth century the trend was away from referring to their positivist beliefs expressed in class and rather towards references...

...Raymond Sayers There are some structural weaknesses that lessen the usefulness of the book. In his attempt to be complete the author has seen fit to name almost every Positivist who is at all remembered in Brazil and to quote over-liberally from their writings, which include not only...

... at the Universidad Central in Caracas in 1874. Moreover, most of Venezuela’s leading positivists actively supported Gómez during his 27-year rule, from 1908 until 1935, and achieved high positions in government, in the national legislatures, or in the diplomatic corps. The changes in Venezuela’s political life after...

... positivists, is a good example of a personality whose correspondence indicates little which could be considered Comtean philosophy. 36 It was also unfortunate that Zea often equated “positivism” with ideas and activities which writers today would call “scientism.” Zea assumed, especially in his review...

... the positivists themselves did not believe order and progress were irreconcilable, and there is little need for a new generation of students to believe or disbelieve likewise, especially since their concern should be more with history than metahistory. If the book has some merit it remains the way the various...

... the southern Araucanians, as well as the liberal positivist legislation and actions of late nineteenth-century Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, and most other Latin American countries against their oppressed and dispossessed Indian populations. In sum, Viñas concludes, all throughout Latin America...

... in Mexican society. Much of his discussion revolves around leading Mexican positivists—Gabino Barreda, Justo Sierra, and the científicos —and how they rationalized within the powerful mythology of Mexican liberalism a regime that contradicted many of the basic classical liberal tenets. After paying...

... search for identity—the psychological and historical process of discovering one’s self through the transformation of tradition to myth. Lo mexicano continued in the post-positivist era of the Revolution, as it became the preoccupation of Mexico’s greatest pensadores of the 1920s. These thinkers...

... of Venezuela whom the author of this book sees as fundamentally positivist in thought, an admirer of previous Venezuelan positivists such as Adolf Ernst and Rafael Villavicencio, but displaying certain non-positivist contradictions in historical theory. Fundamentally González viewed history as a social process...

... in the forties and fifties, when concern over the nature of historical knowledge and study formed part of the philosophical quest for identity in Mexico. There were two main positions, we are told by Matute in his descriptive introduction, the neo-positivist or scientific and the historicist, relativist...

... Press 2001 Positivist criminology is drawing renewed scholarly attention. Yet the new historians of the science of crime do not come from legal backgrounds. This heavily ideological, discourse-based discipline is an irresistible temptation for scholars who (under the influence of Foucault) see...

... in the 1920s. The remaining essays focus on the origins and early development of the university from 1897 to 1918, with special emphasis on the long tenure of Joaquín V. González, who became rector of the university after it was nationalized in 1905. A positivist dedicated to correcting Argentine problems...

... of his classic works— Le Pérou contemporain (1907) and Les démocraties latines de l’Amérique (1912)—both published originally in French, an indication perhaps of his ambivalent nationalism. Initially Riva-Agüero seemed more deeply influenced by Positivist ideas. In an early public lecture, “El...

...Nikita Harwich Vallenilla Elena Plaza’s essay is a product of the current approach in Venezuelan historiography to reassess the turn-of-the-century positivist generation, of which José Gil Fortoul was a distinguished representative. Because of their overall political identification with the Juan...

... This is an interesting book, both for the student of nineteenth-century Brazil and for those whose focus is chiefly on Brazil today. The fact that Brazilian intellectual and political circles at the time of the establishment of the Republic were greatly influenced by the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte is well...

... opposed obligatory vaccination, as did many prominent opposition politicians, professional organizations, academic institutions, and the Positivist church. By November’s first week, a Liga Contra Vacina Obrigatória, explicitly modeled on an earlier British organization, had been put together by more...

... examination of the various publications which served as the vehicles for the diffusion of Positivist thought, his analysis of ideological influences on educational institutions, and his discussion of the anti-positivist forces at work before the Revolution itself are other aspects of his study which serve...

... for a book on factionalism. Finally, by dismissing the positivists and their role in the military, he misses a key opportunity to discuss the importance of ideology in the early years of the republic. This is a shame, for elsewhere in the book he mentions the key role positivism and positivist officers...

... to tolerate the presence and practices of the dirty and undisciplined poor (practices such as public drinking, begging, elimination, and sexual intimacy), authorities enlisted the police and positivist science to try to keep the elites separate from these people who refused to conform. Mexican criminologists...