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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of
science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new,
secular, stable society based on positive, or scientific, ideas,
rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations
associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most
comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's
philosophy, the relation of his work to the sciences of his day,
and the extensive, continuing impact of his thinking on philosophy
and especially secular political movements in Europe, Latin
America, and Asia. Contributors consider Comte's reasons for
establishing a Religion of Humanity, as well as his views on
domestic life and the arts in his positivist utopia. The volume
further details Comte's attempt to apply his "positive method,"
first to social science and then to politics and morality, thereby
defending the continuity of his career while also critically
examining the limits of his approach.
This volume begins to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte
during his so-called second career, the controversial period that
began in 1842 and lasted until his death. This volume covers the
years from 1842 to 1852, when Comte transformed his positive
philosophy into a political and religious movement. It represents
the first in-depth study of that movement. Focusing on key books,
such as the Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme, Mary Pickering
connects Comte's intellectual development to the tumultuous
historical context and to episodes in his personal life, especially
his famous relationship with Clotilde de Vaux. The book examines
for the first time why workers, doctors, women, and famous writers,
such as John Stuart Mill, George Henry Lewes, and Emile Littré,
were drawn to his thought.
This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste
Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from
the coup d etat of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte s death in
1857. During these early years of the Second Empire, Comte became
increasingly conservative and anxious to control his disciples.
This study offers the first analysis of the tensions within his
movement. Focusing on his second masterpiece, the Systeme de
politique positive, and other important books, such as the Synthese
subjective, Mary Pickering not only sheds light on Comte s
intellectual development but also traces the dissemination of
positivism and the Religion of Humanity throughout many parts of
the world.
As the founder of sociology, positivism, and the history of
science, Auguste Comte was arguably the most important nineteenth
century French philosopher. Yet he has been curiously neglected.
Based upon ten years of research, including three years of archival
work in Paris, Mary Pickering's projected two-volume study
constitutes the first comprehensive intellectual biography of this
thinker. This first volume covers the period from his birth to the
completion of the seminal Cours de philosophie positive and places
Comte's evolution within the context of post-revolutionary France.
It shows that Comte, reacting to the cataclysmic upheavals of his
time, developed sociology as a way to unify society. He conceived
the new doctrine of positivism to serve as its basis and to
eliminate the questionable abstractions of conventional philosophy.
The book examines the interplay between Comte's controversial
intellectual development and the vicissitudes of his personal and
professional life. It highlights his struggles with poverty and
mental illness, his failed marriage to a so-called prostitute and
his violent confrontations with the government and the scientific
community. At the same time, it investigates his volatile
relationships with his family, friends, and disciples, as well as
with such famous contemporaries as Saint-Simon, the
Saint-Simonians, Guizot, and John Stuart Mill. Pickering challenges
the traditional view of Comte as an arid, simplistic thinker.
According to her, he always emphasized the importance of the
emotions and distrusted the scientistic approach that now is
paradoxically associated with positivism. She thus demonstrates
that his later religious direction did not constitutea break with
his early beliefs but represented their logical outcome.
This book constitutes the first volume of a projected two-volume intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology and a philosophical movement called positivism. Volume One offers a reinterpretation of Comte's "first career," (1798-1842) when he completed the scientific foundation of his philosophy. It describes the interplay between Comte's ideas and the historical context of postrevolutionary France, his struggles with poverty and mental illness, and his volatile relationships with friends, family, and colleagues, including such famous contemporaries as Saint-Simon, the Saint-Simonians, Guizot, and John Stuart Mill. Pickering shows that the man who called for a new social philosophy based on the sciences was not only ill at ease in the most basic human relationships, but also profoundly questioned the ability of the purely scientific spirit to regenerate the political and social world.
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