Power of the Metaphysical Artifact

Obed Frausto is assistant professor of humanities at Ball State University, Indiana,

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The French Political Philosophy of Science in the Late Nineteenth Century: Eclecticism, Positivism, and Political RomanticismChapter I. The Philosophical Eclecticism of Victor CousinChapter II. The Engineers’ Paradise: Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, and Pierre LerouxChapter III. The Philosophical and Political Debates of the Spiritualists, the Scientists, and the PositivistsPart II: Philosophical-Political Debates in Mexico: Positivism and SpiritualismChapter IV. The Paradise of the Physicians: The Mexican Positivism of Gabino Barreda.Chapter V. The Political Spiritualism of José María Vigil and the Political and Historical Debate with SierraChapter VI. The Philosophical Debates over the Logic TextbookConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Obed Frausto excellently integrates in a coherent system of intelligibility, that of the artifact of metaphysics, different parameters such as socialization networks, systems of representation, motivations, intentionality and individual social actions, emerging in two very different contexts of power and knowledge organization.