Auguste Comte /

Gane, Mike.

Auguste Comte / Mike Gane. - New York : Routledge, 2006. - xv, 158 pages : illustrations, 21cm. - Key sociologists .

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 -- Spiritual power, sociology and humanity -- A second sociology -- Sociologists and the regime of the fetishes -- Comte's futures.


In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte?s sociology for years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure. Gane?s work is an essential read for all sociologists and students.


9780415385428(pbk.)


Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857.


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


Biographies

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