Chapter 1 Introduction: Particularizing Positivism

Chapter 2 Striking a Chord: The Reception of Comte’s Positivism in Colonial India

Chapter 4 Positivism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The “Young Turks” as Mediators and Multipliers

Chapter 5 An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain

Chapter 6 Trading Epistemological Insults: “Positive Knowledge” and Natural Science in Germany, 1800–1850

Chapter 7 The French Philosophical Crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the “Positivist School”

Chapter 8 Habsburg Positivism: The Politics of Positive Knowledge in Imperial and Post-Imperial Austria, 1804–1938

Chapter 9 The Contexts of Early Polish Positivisms, 1840s–1900s

Chapter 10 Positivism in Late Tsarist Russia: Its Introduction, Penetration, and Diffusion

Chapter 11 Positivism in the Northern Peripheries: Generations of Positivist Philosophers in Sweden and Its Neighboring Countries

Chapter 12 Dilthey and Carnap: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Elimination of Metaphysics

Chapter 13 The Worlds of Positivism: An Analytical Synopsis