ISBN:
9781783086481
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Anthem Companions to Sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Comte, Auguste,-1798-1857
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A collection of new essays on Auguste Comte by leading Comte scholars, social theorists, philosophers and intellectual historians. The collection aims to further the critical re-examination of Auguste Comte, an important but long neglected figure, while also providing a multi-faceted introduction to key aspects of his thought, its genesis and its place in the modern Western tradition.
Abstract:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter (1-10) -- Introduction -- Life and Works -- Comte's Thought and Its Difficulties -- Positivisme -- The Two Comtes -- Sociology at the Center -- Comte's Sociology -- Chapters and Themes -- References -- (a) Primary (in order of original publication by Comte) -- (b) Secondary -- Chapter One Auguste Comte and The Second Scientific Revolution -- What Is the Cours de philosophie positive About? -- Physics, Biology, Sociology -- The Cours in Context -- A Second Scientific Revolution? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Two "Structure" and "Genesis," and Comte's Conception of Social Science -- Introduction -- The Three "Case-Study" Years -- 1822a -- 1822b -- 1822c -- 1830a -- 1830b -- 1830c -- 1842a -- 1842b -- 1842c -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three The Social and The Political in The Work of Auguste Comte -- Introduction -- Social Order and Political Order in the Work of August Comte -- Social Order as Common Representations and Dispositions -- Order, Disorder and Human Nature -- Power and Politics -- The Positive Political System -- Comte's Place in the History of Social and Political Thinking -- Auguste Comte and the "Language of the Social" -- Comte in the History of Political Thought -- References -- Chapter Four The Counterrevolutionary Comte: Theorist of The Two Powers and Enthusiastic Medievalist -- Maistre, Comte and the Two Powers -- Saint-Simon versus Maistre: Knowledge versus Power -- Politics under Morals -- The "Retrogrades" and the Positivist Method -- The "Retrogrades" and the Medieval -- The "Retrogrades," Spiritual or Chivalric -- Going Beyond the "Retrogrades": The "Adoration of Woman" -- The "Retrogrades," the Trinity and Mysticism.
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