HIS 2341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lartiste, Positivism, Auguste Comte
13 Sep 2016
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Introduction: the swinging ideological pendulum, respectability, and passive modes or control: prominent ideologies, liberalism, positivism, darwinism, social darwinism, realism triumphant in the arts, primitivism vs. urbanism, conclusion. Romanticism = reaction searches for the meaning" or the soul. Rise of science and progress reason becomes important again. At the end of the century, anti-urbanisation sentiments arise (primitivism) Some consistencies in terms of swinging back and forth aspects of the ideologies don"t go away, but stay on the pendulum" etc. Distinguish from the lower-middle class more prominent in later 19th century. Consumerism rises because of classes trying to emulate the higher ones and the higher classes trying to distinguish themselves from their lesser classes". Religion becomes a part of the respectable definition of your place in society. Religion remains central to people"s lives, but as a sign of their outward respectability and not their internal faith science is progressing at the time.
