{"product_id":"positivism-in-mexico-leopoldo-zea-9781477305324","title":"Positivism in Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e Positivism, not just an \"ivory tower\" philosophy, was a major force in the social, political, and educational life of Mexico during the last half of the nineteenth century. Once colonial conservatism had been conquered, the French Intervention ended, and Maximilian of Hapsburg executed, reformers wanted to create a new national order to replace the Spanish colonial one. The victorious liberals strove to achieve \"mental emancipation,\" a kind of second independence, which would abolish the habits and customs imposed on Mexicans by three centuries of colonialism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At this singular moment in Mexican history, positivism was offered as an extraordinary means and pathway to a new order. The next stage was the education of the Mexican people in this liberal philosophy and their incorporation into the process of development achieved by modern nations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Leopoldo Zea traces the forerunners of liberal thought and their influence during Ju疵ez's time and shows how this ideology degenerated into an \"order and progress\" philosophy that served merely to maintain colonial forms of exploitation and, at the same time, to create new ones that were peculiar to the neocolonialism that the great nations of the world imposed on other peoples. Zea examines the regime of Porfirio D?z and its justification by the positivist philosophers of the period. He concludes that the conflict between exploited social groups, on the one hand, and foreign interests and a middle class on the margin of an oligarchy, on the other, brought about the movement known as the Mexican Revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leopoldo Zea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477305327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477305324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Leopoldo Zea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935564955903,"sku":"9781477305324","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_134e05b8-0626-446f-9443-72f2170420f4.jpg?v=1681420539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/positivism-in-mexico-leopoldo-zea-9781477305324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}