The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte

Andrew Wernick

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780857281852
• eBook ISBN: 9781783086481
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on positive philosophy, politics and religion were disregarded and largely ignored. More recently, however, Comte's life and writings have been reexamined together with the project of social reform to which his intellectual labors were devoted, producing a much more complicated picture of his thought and its significance. The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte—with ten new critical essays by leading Comte scholars, sociologists, intellectual historians, social theorists and philosophers—aims to further this reexamination while also providing a multifaceted introduction to Comte's thought and to current discussion about him. The essays also examine Comte's relation to a multiplicity of other thinkers, and his place more generally in the formation and legacy of modern Western thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One AUGUSTE COMTE AND THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:
• Chapter Two “STRUCTURE” AND “GENESIS,” AND COMTE’S CONCEPTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE:
• Chapter Three THE SOCIAL AND THE POLITICAL IN THE WORK OF AUGUSTE COMTE:
• Chapter Four THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY COMTE: THEORIST OF THE TWO POWERS AND ENTHUSIASTIC MEDIEVALIST:
• Chapter Five THE “GREAT CRISIS”: COMTE, NIETZSCHE AND THE RELIGION QUESTION:
• Chapter Six “LES AR-Z ET LES SCIENCES”: AESTHETIC THEORY AND AESTHETIC POLITICS IN COMTE’S LATE WORK:
• Chapter Seven COMTE’S CIVIC COMEDY: SECULAR RELIGION AND MODERN MORALITY IN THE AGE OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY:
• Chapter Eight AUGUSTE COMTE AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF ENGLISH WOMEN:
• Chapter Nine COMTE AND HIS LIBERAL CRITICS: FROM SPENCER TO HAYEK:
• Chapter Ten LIVING AFTER POSITIVISM, BUT NOT WITHOUT IT:
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Contributors
• Index