Knowledge in series

Abstract

Positivism was one the most influential social and philosophical currents in Central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, propagated by the new media, in particular popular intellectual journals, which published book series in support of their ideological message. By investigating the media in which positivist knowledge was popularised in Czech and Polish, this chapter argues that the way the translations were framed in book series was crucial for the appropriation of positive philosophy and social thought.