The Essential Comte selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive

Auguste Comte edited by Stanislav Andreski translated by margaret Clarke

ISBN 10: 0856640549 / ISBN 13: 9780856640544

Published by Croom Helm, London, 1974

Cover clean with light shelf wear, gentle signs of use with sun fading and light creasing to spine. Pages clean and carefully read with no folds or creases, text free of annotation. Clean, solid copy. c1. Seller Inventory # 144530

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Essential Comte selected from Cours de ...
Publisher: Croom Helm, London
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good