Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity

Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity
The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory (2001)
Andrew Wernick
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Pages 290

Acknowledgments page viii

1 Introduction: rethinking Comte 1

2 The system and its logic

(1): from positive philosophy to social science 22

3 The system and its logic

(2): from sociology to thesubjective synthesis 50

4 Religion and the crisis of industrialism 81

5 Love and the social body 116

6 The path to perfection 153

7 Humanity as `le vrai Grand-E tre' 187

8 Socio-theology after Comte 221

References 267

Index 275