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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      September 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511605352
      9780521119146
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605352
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.05kg, 682 Pages
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      • Series:
      Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
      Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Series:
    Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    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'état 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 study of the tensions within his movement. Focusing on his second masterpiece, the Système de politique positive, and other important books, such as the Synthèse 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.

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    'Mary Pickering has spent thirty years of her life working on her biography of Auguste Comte, and the resulting two thousand or so pages are evidence of the amount of research and documentation involved.'

    Keith Gore Source: Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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