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Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This
polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for
publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As
the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to
employ the philosopher's new science of sociology to dismantle the
British Empire. With an aim to realise in its place Comte's global
vision of utopian socialist republican city-states, the former
Oxford don and ex-Anglican minister launched his Church of Humanity
in 1859. Over the next forty years, Congreve engaged in some of the
most pressing foreign and domestic controversies of his day,
despite facing fierce personal attacks in the Victorian press.
Congreve made overlooked contributions to the history of science,
political economy, and secular ethics. In this book Matthew Wilson
argues that Congreve's polemics, 'in the name of Humanity', served
as the devotional practices of his Positivist church.
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