Key Sociologists _ Auguste Comte

(Key Sociologists)
Auguste Comte
Mike Gane
Routledge (2006)
Format PDF 1.40 MB
Pages 176

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

Abbreviations xiv

Chapter 1

An Introduction to Comte’s Ideas 1

Chapter 2

The Comtean Illusion 13

Chapter 3

The Context and Materials of Sociology 24

Chapter 4

The Intimations of Social Science and a New Politics 37

Chapter 5

Comte’s Heretical Report on Knowledge 50

Chapter 6

But Why Did Comte Need Sociology? 65

Chapter 7

A Sociological Theory of Modernity 76

Chapter 8

Spiritual Power, Sociology and Humanity 86

Chapter 9

A Second Sociology 102

Chapter 10

Sociologists and the Regime of Fetishes 117

Chapter 11

Comte’s Futures 128

Glossary 135

Notes 137

Bibliography 143

Index 154