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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      26 November 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511527975
      9780521434058
      9780521025744
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527975
      Dimensions:
      (204 x 159 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.28kg, 792 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.078kg, 792 Pages
      • Series:
      Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
      Subjects:
      History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
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    Series:
    Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
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    This book constitutes the first volume of a 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 post-revolutionary 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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    ‘A notable feature of this magnificent book is the illuminating way in which Mary Pickering relates the life-struggles of Comte with the development of his ideas.’

    I. Bernard Cohen - Harvard University

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