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Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-Theistic Program of French Social Theory

Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-Theistic Program of French Social Theory

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PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521023629
ISBN13: 9780521023627
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 24 2005
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers an exciting reinterpretation of Auguste Comte, the founder of French sociology. Andrew Wernick provides the first in-depth critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science. He places Comte's ideas within the context of post-1789 French political and intellectual history, and of modern philosophy, especially postmodernism. Wernick relates Comte to Marx and Nietzsche as seminal figures of modernity and examines key features of modern and postmodern French social theory, tracing the inherent flaws and disintegration of Comte's system.

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