The alienation of reason : a history of positivist thought /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kołakowski, Leszek (Author)
Other Authors: Guterman, Norbert, 1900-1984 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of Filozofia pozytywistyczna; od Humeʹa do Koła Wiedeńskiego.
Published: Garden City, New York : Doubleday, [1968]
Edition:[Fist edition].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An over-all view of positivism
  • Positivism down to David Hume
  • Auguste Comte: positivism in the romantic age
  • Positivism triumphant
  • Positivism at the turn of the century
  • Conventionalism--destruction of the concept of fact
  • Pragmatism and positivism
  • Logical empiricism: a scientistic defense of threatened civilization.