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1. Introduction. Particularizing positivism

Part I. Empires of positivism

2. Striking a chord : the reception of Comte's positivism in colonial India

3. Positivism, revolution and history in Brazil

4. Positivism in the late Ottoman Empire : the "Young Turks" as mediators and multipliers

Part II. Positive knowledge and the making of positivism

5. An enlightened path to positivism? Reflections on the institutionalization of science in Bourbon Spain

6. Trading epistemological insults : "positive knowledge" and natural science in Germany, 1800-1850

7. The French philosophical crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the "positivist school"

Part III. The liberal politics of science and society

8. Habsburg positivism : the politics of positive knowledge in imperial and post-imperial Austria, 1804-1938

9. The contexts of early Polish positivisms, 1840s-1900s

10. Positivism in late tsarist Russia : its introduction, penetration and diffusion

Part IV. Positivist aftermath

11. Positivism in the northern peripheries : generations of positivist philosophers in Sweden and its neighboring countries

12. Dilthey and Carnap : the feeling of Life, the scientific worldview, and the elimination of metaphysics

Part V. Epilogue

13. The worlds of positivism : an analytical synopsis