The Essential Comte: Selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive

Comte, & Stanislav Andreski (ed.) and Margaret Clarke (trans.), Auguste

ISBN 10: 0856640492 / ISBN 13: 9780856640490

Edité par Croom Helm, London, 1974

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Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 252 pp. Text contains some pencil and occasional ink markings. Binding firm, spine faded. Edges browned and marked. Ex-library, with usual stamps and markings. Covers slightly marked and worn. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Philosophy; Italy; 19th century; ISBN: 0856640492. ISBN/EAN: 9780856640490. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47006.

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• Titre: The Essential Comte: Selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive
• Éditeur: Croom Helm, London
• Date de parution: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0856640492
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780856640490
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good (ex-library)
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Philosophy

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Selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive first published in Paris in 1830-42. Cover slightly sunned.Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,252pages.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.