Gane, Mike.,

Auguste Comte / Mike Gane. - 1 online resource (xv, 158 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-153) and index.

An introduction to Comte's ideas -- The Comtean illusion -- The context and materials of sociology -- The intimations of social science and a new politics -- Comte's heretical report on knowledge -- But why did Comte need sociology? -- A sociological theory of modernity -- A second sociology -- Spiritual supra-state power, sociology and humanity -- Sociologists and the regime of the fetishes -- Comte's futures.

9780203963098 9781134172191 9781134172238 9781134172245

10.4324/9780203963098 doi


Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857.


Sociology--History.
Sociologists--France--Biography.

HM479.C8 / G36 2006

301.092 / G196