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Contents. I. Two fundamental tendencies in Society: the popular and the governmental. — The Kinship of Anarchism and the Popular-creative Tendency II. The Intellectual Movement of the XVIII century; its fundamental traits: the investigation of all phenomena by the scientific method. — The Stagnation of Thought at the Beginning of the XIX century. — The Awakening of Socialism: its influence upon the development of science. — The Fifties III. Auguste Comte's Attempt to build up a Synthetic Philosophy. — The causes of his failure: the religious explanation of the moral sense in man IV. The Flowering of the Exact Sciences in 1856-62. — The Development of the Mechanical World-Conception, embracing the Development of Human Ideas and Institutions. — A Theory of Evolution V. The Possibility of a New Synthetic Philosophy. — Herbert Spencer's attempt: why it failed. — The Method not sustained. — A False Conception of "The Struggle for Existence." VI. The Causes of this Mistake. — The Teaching of the Church: "the World is steeped in Sin." — The Government's inculcation of the same view of "Man's Radical Perversity." — The Views of Modern Anthropology upon this subject. — The Development of forms of Life by the "Masses," and the Law. — Its Two-fold Character VII. The Place of Anarchism in Science. — Its Endeavor to Formulate a Synthetic Conception of the World. — Its Object VIII. Its origin. — How Its Ideal is Developed by the Natural-Scientific Method IX. A Brief Summary of the Conclusions Reached by Anarchism: Law. — Morality.—Economic Ideas — The Government X. Continuation:—Methods of Action. — The Understanding of Revolutions and their Birth.—The Creative Ingenuity of the People.—Conclusion

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution. Restivo's account is at once normative, analytical, organizational, and policy oriented, in particular with respect to education.