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.
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.
Andrew Wernick is emeritus professor of cultural studies and sociology at Trent University, Canada, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. A social theorist, intellectual historian, sociologist of culture and sometime jazz musician, he is the author of more than seventy essays on contemporary culture and cultural/social theory. His writings include Promotional Culture: Advertising, Ideology and Symbolic Expression (1991), Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity (2001), and the coedited anthologies Shadow of Spirit: Religion and Postmodernism (1992) and Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life (1995).
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Acknowledgements; Introduction - Andrew Wernick; 1. Auguste Comte and the Second Scientific Revolution - Johan Heilbron; 2. 'Structure' and 'genesis' and Comte's conception of social science - Derek Robbins; 3. The social and the political in the work of Auguste Comte - Jean Terrier; 4. The counter-revolutionary Comte: theorist of the two powers and enthusiastic medievalist - Carolina Armenteros; 5. The "great crisis": Comte, Nietzsche and the religion question - Andrew Wernick; 6. "Les ar-z et les sciences": aesthetic theory and aesthetic politics in Comte's late work - Stefanos Geroulanos; 7. Comte's civic comedy: secular religion and modern morality in the age of classical sociology - Thomas Kemple; 8. Auguste Comte and the curious case of English women - Mary Pickering; 9. Comte and his liberal critics: from Spencer to Hayek - Mike Gane; 10. Living after positivism, but not without it - Robert C. Scharff; Appendix A: Calendrier positiviste, ou tableau concret de la preparation humaine; Appendix B: Classification positive des dix-huit fonctions du cerveau, ou Tableau systématique de l'àme; Appendix C: Hiérarchie théorique des conceptions humaines, ou tableau synthétique de l'ordre universel; Appendix D: Tableau des quinze grandes lois de philosophie première, ou principes universels sur lesquels repose le dogme positif; Appendix E: Positivist Library in the Nineteenth Century; Notes on contributors; Index.
Acknowledgements; Introduction - Andrew Wernick; 1. Auguste Comte and the Second Scientific Revolution - Johan Heilbron; 2. 'Structure' and 'genesis' and Comte's conception of social science - Derek Robbins; 3. The social and the political in the work of Auguste Comte - Jean Terrier; 4. The counter-revolutionary Comte: theorist of the two powers and enthusiastic medievalist - Carolina Armenteros; 5. The "great crisis": Comte, Nietzsche and the religion question - Andrew Wernick; 6. "Les ar-z et les sciences": aesthetic theory and aesthetic politics in Comte's late work - Stefanos Geroulanos; 7. Comte's civic comedy: secular religion and modern morality in the age of classical sociology - Thomas Kemple; 8. Auguste Comte and the curious case of English women - Mary Pickering; 9. Comte and his liberal critics: from Spencer to Hayek - Mike Gane; 10. Living after positivism, but not without it - Robert C. Scharff; Appendix A: Calendrier positiviste, ou tableau concret de la preparation humaine; Appendix B: Classification positive des dix-huit fonctions du cerveau, ou Tableau systématique de l'àme; Appendix C: Hiérarchie théorique des conceptions humaines, ou tableau synthétique de l'ordre universel; Appendix D: Tableau des quinze grandes lois de philosophie première, ou principes universels sur lesquels repose le dogme positif; Appendix E: Positivist Library in the Nineteenth Century; Notes on contributors; Index.
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