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Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-Theistic Program of French Social Theory Hardcover - 2001

by Andrew Wernick


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This book offers an exciting reinterpretation of Auguste Comte, the founder of French sociology. Andrew Wernick provides the first in-depth critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science. He places Comte's ideas within the context of post-1789 French political and intellectual history, and of modern philosophy, especially postmodernism. Wernick relates Comte to Marx and Nietzsche as seminal figures of modernity and examines key features of modern and postmodern French social theory, tracing the inherent flaws and disintegration of Comte's system.

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At the heart of Auguste Comte's program for resolving the 'crisis' of (early) industrial society - and explicitly so with the publication, in 1851, of Systeme de politique positive ou Traite de sociologie - was a project for 'positivising' religion by instituting (as its subtitle announced) la religion de l'Humanite.

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  • Title Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-Theistic Program of French Social Theory
  • Author Andrew Wernick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2001-04-30
  • ISBN 9780521662727 / 0521662729
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Positivism - History - 19th century, Comte, Auguste - Religion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00063093
  • Dewey Decimal Code 194
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