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The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte

The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte

Wernick, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0857281852
ISBN13: 9780857281852
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Auguste Comte was a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, but his work and voluminous oeuvre were largely ignored, even in France, for most of the twentieth century. In the field of sociology, the science he claimed to have invented and the cornerstone of his positive philosophy, Comte became regarded more as an eccentric precursor to Durkheim than a real founder of the discipline, or even a significant contributor to its stock of ideas. Recently, however, Comte's life and writings have begun to be searchingly re-examined together with the wider religious, social and political project of reform to which his intellectual labors were devoted. What has emerged is a much more complicated picture of his thought and its significance. 'The Companion to Auguste Comte' - with ten new critical essays by leading Comte scholars, sociologists, intellectual historians, social theorists and philosophers - contributes to this re-examination, providing a multi-faceted introduction to Comte's thought and to current discussion about him.

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