Auguste Comte: Volume 1: An Intellectual Biography - Couverture rigide

Pickering, Mary

 
9780521434058: Auguste Comte: Volume 1: An Intellectual Biography
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ISBN 10 : 052143405X ISBN 13 : 9780521434058
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book constitutes the first volume of a 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 post-revolutionary 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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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book constitutes the first volume of a 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 post-revolutionary 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.

Revue de presse

'A notable feature of this magnificent book is the illuminating way in which Mary Pickering relates the life-struggles of Comte with the development of his ideas.' I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052143405X
ISBN 13 
9780521434058
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
792
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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ISBN 10 :  0521025745 ISBN 13 :  9780521025744
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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