1st Edition
Auguste Comte and Positivism The Essential Writings
Edited By Gertrud Lenzer
Copyright 1998
640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
530 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have been published in the English language in this century. He has become virtually dissociated from the history of modern positivism and the most recent debates about it. Gertrud Lenzer maintains that the work of Comte is, for... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction: Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism, PART I. EARLY WRITINGS (1819-1828), PART II. THE FIRST SYSTEM, PART III. THE SECOND SYSTEM, PART IV. THE WORSHIP, Conclusion of the Whole Work of the System of Positive Polity, Postscript—Mind-forged Manacles: Auguste Comte and the Future, Selected Bibliography, More Recent Bibliographical Sources, Index
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Gertrud Lenzer
