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Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography

By Mary Pickering

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
052143405X, 9780521434058
LCC
B2247 .P53 1993
Open Library ID
OL1739178M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4580421 bytes)
Series
Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
Volume
Volume 1
Pages
790\790
DPI
300
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

This book constitutes the first volume of a projected two-volume intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology and a philosophical movement called positivism. Volume One offers a reinterpretation of Comte's "first career," (1798-1842) when he completed the scientific foundation of his philosophy. It describes the interplay between Comte's ideas and the historical context of postrevolutionary France, his struggles with poverty and mental illness, and his volatile relationships with friends, family, and colleagues, including such famous contemporaries as Saint-Simon, the Saint-Simonians, Guizot, and John Stuart Mill. Pickering shows that the man who called for a new social philosophy based on the sciences was not only ill at ease in the most basic human relationships, but also profoundly questioned the ability of the purely scientific spirit to regenerate the political and social world.

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