Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of
the founders of sociology and as a key representative of
positivism, few new editions of his writings have been published in
the English language in this century. He has become virtually
dissociated from the history of modern positivism and the most
recent debates about it. Gertrud Lenzer maintains that the work of
Comte is, for better or for worse, essential to an understanding of
the modern period of positivism. This collection provides new
access to the work of Comte and gives practitioners of various
disciplines the possibility of reassessing concepts that were first
introduced in Comte's writings.
Today much of the ordinary business of academic disciplines is
conducted under the assumption that the realm of science is
essentially separate from the realms of politics and science. A
close reading of Comte will reveal how deeply such current ideas
and theories were originally embedded hi a particular political
context. One of his central methodological principles was that the
theory of society had to be removed from the arena of political
practice precisely in order to control that practice by means of
these same sciences. It is hi Comte's work that the reader will be
able to observe how the forces of social and political reaction
began to be powerfully organized to combat the critical forces in
its own and later eras. Auguste Comte and Positivism will be of
importance to the work of philosophers, sociologists, political
theorists, and historians.
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