The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory): Selected from 'Cours de philosophie positive' by Auguste Comte (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Softcover

 
9781138989184: The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory): Selected from 'Cours de philosophie positive' by Auguste Comte (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
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ISBN 10: 1138989185 ISBN 13: 9781138989184
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume Cours de Philosophie Positive of which this present book is a selective abridgement. Comte, as this selection shows, was a methodological visionary. He was an eminently successful terminological innovator and to him we owe not only 'sociology' and 'positivism' but also 'biology' and 'altruism'. Professor Andreski, in his lucid introduction, assesses Comte's place under six headings, as scientist, philosopher, sociological theorist, sociological historian, reformer and methodologist. But this selection from Comte's works will be most welcomed because it provides a modern English translation of the main body of his thought.

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Stanislav Andreski

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138989185
ISBN 13 
9781138989184
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Paperback
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1
Number of pages
256
Editor
Andreski Stanislav

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