Auguste Comte_ An Intellectual Biography Volume 3

Auguste Comte_ An Intellectual Biography Volume 3
Mary Pickering
Cambridge University Press (2009)
Format PDF 4.92 MB
Pages 683

Acknowledgments page xi

Abbreviations and Notes xiii

Introduction 1

1 The Coup d’Etat and Its Consequences 14

2 Comte’s Stumblings 53

3 The Vicissitudes of Positivism during the Early Empire 96

4 Syst`eme de politique positive: Natural and Social Philosophy 159

5 Syst`eme de politique positive: Comte’s Philosophy of History 246

6 Syst`eme de politique positive: Comte’s Utopia 312

7 The Last Years: Politics and Propaganda 394

8 The Last Flurry of Activity: The Testament and Synth`ese subjective 474

9 The Death of the Great Priest of Humanity and His Influence 526

Conclusion 580

Bibliography 609

Index 633

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