The Essential Comte : Selected from 'Cours de Philosophie Positive'

Comte, Auguste, Clarke, Margaret

ISBN 10: 0856640492 / ISBN 13: 9780856640490

Edité par Croom Helm, Limited, 1974

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• Titre: The Essential Comte : Selected from 'Cours de Philosophie Positive'
• Éditeur: Croom Helm, Limited
• Date de parution: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0856640492
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780856640490
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 0,929 livre

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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.