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Lesa Scholl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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george eliot harriet martineau and the popularisation of comte s Positive Philosophy
Literature Compass, 2012Co-Authors: Lesa SchollAbstract:Harriet Martineau’s ‘freely translated and condensed’ version of Auguste Comte’s Positive Philosophy (1853) made a significant contribution to the scholarly conversation on positivism in Britain. The translation of Continental Philosophy into English during the mid-nineteenth century enabled translators to rewrite and rethink the original text for their home audience according to their own political and social agenda. Yet the idea of translation can be broadened to include translating philosophical ideas into different genres in order to broaden the readership – to popularise and, to some minds, bastardise the Philosophy. The translation of Philosophy into literary fiction arguably bridges the gap between scholarly integrity and popularisation that Eliot feared; indeed, both Eliot and Martineau, as established translators, vividly understood their power to manipulate and mould foreign philosophies through both their literal translations and their fiction. This paper examines the translational role of Eliot’s Middlemarch (1877) and Martineau’s Deerbrook (1839) in reproducing, reshaping and popularising Comte’s positivism within the British public mind.
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teaching and learning guide for george eliot harriet martineau and the popularisation of comte s Positive Philosophy
Literature Compass, 2012Co-Authors: Lesa SchollAbstract:This guide accompanies the following article: Scholl, Lesa. ‘George Eliot, Harriet Martineau and the Popularisation of Comte’s Positive Philosophy’. Literature Compass 9/11 (2012): 764–773. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00906.x Further Reading Mary Pickering’s comprehensive Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, volume 1 (Cambridge UP 1993), has been followed by volumes 2 and 3 of the collection in 2009. In these later volumes, Pickering explores in further depth the influence of Comte’s Philosophy upon European thought, as well as the dissemination of Comtist Positivism throughout many parts of the globe. The volumes focus more on the Religion of Humanity and Comte’s second masterpiece, Systeme de Politique Positive and Comte’s position within the second Napoleonic Empire. I would also recommend Charles D Cashdollar’s The Transformation of Theology, 1830–1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America (Princeton 1989), which takes a useful transatlantic approach to Comte’s influence, as well as the influence of those who took an active part in the evolution and transformation of Positivism throughout the nineteenth century. Cashdollar examines the connections between Positivism, Darwinism and Religion in the development of Sociology, offering a historical foundation to modern and postmodern debates concerning the relationship between religion and science. Roger A Salerno’s Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists (Praeger 2004) is also pertinent in this regard, with particular chapters on Auguste Comte and Harriet Martineau, as well as Thomas Dixon’s chapter “The Invention of Altruism: Auguste Comte’s Positive Polity and Respectable Unbelief in Victorian Britain” in David M Knight (ed) Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900 (Ashgate 2005), which positions Positivism within the broader modernist and historical paradigms of religious and secular beliefs, and the influence of the scientific world upon modernity. Useful Links Comte and Positivism of the Web: A (Would-Be) Complete Survey contains articles and essays, timelines and biographical information on Comte in French and English: http://membres.multimania.fr/clotilde/urls.xml Syllabi This article would be most effectively utilised in courses in Literary Culture and Cultural History, as well as the Culture of the Mind. It would play a significant role in the understanding of Victorian intellectual culture, and the dissemination of that culture through fiction, by being placed alongside Darwinist readings of texts. The interrelations between Darwinism and Positivism could be substantially explored to extend students’ understanding of the battles between religion and science that emerged within the nineteenth-century European context. In this context, it could easily be incorporated into standing Victorian Literature courses, as well as courses on the development of the novel. The essay provokes questions as to the transformation and translation of truth through the fictional narrative, and the way these narratives, particularly in the realist novel, often have a greater potential to penetrate the readers’ understanding and core beliefs by reconstructing a verisimilitude of the world as they already know it. Useful nineteenth-century articles that could be included in this regard are Edward Bulwer Lytton’s “On Moral Fictions” in New Monthly Magazine 37 (1833): 146–51 and George Eliot’s review “The Morality of Wilhelm Meister” in the Leader, 21 July, 1855. Both essays deal with the effectiveness of translating political and philosophical ideas through literature.
Michael Stoltzner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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paolo parrini conoscenza e realta saggio di filosofia positiva roma bari laterza 1995 an english translation appears under the title knowledge and reality an essay in Positive Philosophy within the western ontario series in Philosophy of science at k
1998Co-Authors: Michael StoltznerAbstract:During my first year of Philosophy study at a German university I shared the (unjustified) prejudice of my colleagues that positivist texts are tedious if not boring, at least compared to Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, to Sartre or other French philosophers. Here is a book that shows the opposite and succeeds in keeping the esprit of an essay over 233 pages. Parrini’s use of the word ‘essay’ alludes to Hume’s Essays, more generally to the English tradition rather than to those contemporaries to whom Philosophy is nothing but an essay. Unfortunately, Parrini pays an unnecessary high price for this form when the book’s only footnote informs us that “Reasons of expressive form after all have led me not to burden the text with the usual references to authors and works used. I apologize to the reader. ”(3)1 The expert will easier accept this excuse and, perhaps, enjoy the unencumbered reading, although, as a matter of fact, some footnote-like hints to other authors or even Parrini’s own works are entirely useless without any reference. But, the omittance partly spoils one great merit of the book. As large parts of it are self-contained and Parrini succeeds in making most technical points quite transparent, the essay appears to me very readable for students. To him or her, hardly reading footnotes when going through it first, it becomes almost impossible to penetrate further into ‘Positive Philosophy’. It would have been much more profitable to the freshmen to supplement the book by a two-page bibliography containing the basic references. The English translation to appear soon will contain references and bibliography in the standard fashion. It is a pity, that unlike the Italian original only few students will be able to afford this fascinating book due to its high price.
Andrea Pace Giannotta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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phenomenology empiricism and constructivism in paolo parrini s Positive Philosophy
2020Co-Authors: Andrea Pace GiannottaAbstract:In this work, I discuss the role of Husserl’s phenomenology in Paolo Parrini’s Positive Philosophy. In the first section, I highlight the presence of both empiricist and constructivist elements in Parrini’s anti-foundationalist and anti-absolutist conception of knowledge. In the second section, I stress Parrini’s acknowledgement of the crucial role of phenomenology in investigating the empirical basis of knowledge, thanks to its analysis of the relationship between form and matter of cognition. In the third section, I point out some lines of development of the phenomenological form of empirical realism as revealed in Parrini’s reflection, through a comparison of Husserl’s genetic phenomenology, Mary Hesse’s network model and the tradition of neutral monism.
Paolo Baracchi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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knowledge and reality an essay in Positive Philosophy
2013Co-Authors: Paolo Parrini, Paolo BaracchiAbstract:Foreword. Introduction. I. Positivisms Old and New. II. Epistemic Relativism, Apriorism, Neoempiricism. III. Theory, Observation, and Empiricism. IV. Logical Idealism, Formal Coherence, and Material Correspondence. V. Realism, Instrumentalism, Neopositivism. VI. Truth, Cognitive Objectivity, Metaphysics. VII. Scepticism, Scientific Rationality, Philosophy. Bibliography. Index of Names and Subjects.
Warren Breckman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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at the end of idealism from nihilism to Positive Philosophy
1998Co-Authors: Warren BreckmanAbstract:In a classic article, Gustav Mayer once suggested that the religious and philosophical battles of the 1820s and 1830s were the most intense that Germany had witnessed since the Reformation. Whatever truth there is in Mayer's claim is due in large measure to the enormously controversial effects of Hegel's Philosophy. The 1820s are often presented as years of ascendancy for Hegelianism among German intellectuals, but much would be lost to our understanding of the intellectual history of the early nineteenth century if we neglected the fact that outside the circle of Hegel's supporters, Hegelianism faced opposition from a wide variety of camps. The fact that Hegelianism was beleaguered in the 1820s and 1830s is hardly surprising. After all, fame tends to draw opponents into the open, whether out of petty resentment or a genuine sense that public recognition of one's enemy has raised the stakes of debate. More important, however, the controversy over Hegelianism also reflected the general situation of German and particularly Prussian intellectual life. This dispute may be regarded as the last and climactic episode in the intense debate about the course of German Philosophy that had begun with Kant's revolutionary redefinition of the tasks of Philosophy in the 1780s. Kant had a powerful impact on German intellectual life in the late eighteenth century, particularly through the dissemination of Kantian ideas in popular organs such as the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung and the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek , as well as through Kant's exchanges with his many critics, including the Popularphilosophen who opposed Kant even as they championed enlightenment values.