The prevalence of the philosophy of positivism in much of European society in the latter half

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History and Theory

Vol. 22, No. 2 (May, 1983)

, pp. 120-145 (26 pages)

Published By: Wiley

https://doi.org/10.2307/2504931

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2504931

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History and Theory is the premier international journal in the field of theory and philosophy of history. Founded in 1960, History and Theory publishes articles, review essays, and summaries of books principally in these areas: critical philosophy of history, cause, explanation, interpretation, objectivity; speculative philosophy of history, comparative and global history; historiography, theoretical dimensions of historians' debates; history of historiography, theory and practice of past historians and philosophers of history; historical methodology, examination of texts and other evidence, narrativism, stylistics; critical theory, Marxism, deconstruction, gender theory, psychoanalysis; time and culture, conceptions of humanity-in-time; related disciplines, interactions between history and the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and psychology. JSTOR provides a digital archive of the print version of History and Theory. The electronic version of History and Theory is available at http://www.interscience.wiley.com. Authorized users may be able to access the full text articles at this site.

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