The Catechism of Positive Religion
Or Summary Exposition of the Universal Religion in Thirteen Systematic Conversations between a Woman and a Priest of Humanity
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320 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2009
Summary
This English edition of The Catechism of Positive Religion was published in 1891, thirty-four years after the death of Comte, the French philosopher of science and politics and founder of positivism, whose work was widely read in the later nineteenth century. Comte’s self-published French original of 1852, translated here, outlines his progressive ideal of ‘sociocracy’, which would provide a systematic basis, free of metaphysics, for intellectual and moral transactions among humans. Congreve’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108000871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108000878 |
| Author: | Auguste Comte, Richard Congreve |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy |
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Auguste Comte
Stuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester. He has written widely on British and French intellectual history and political thought, chiefly of the nineteenth century. His books include The French State in Question (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Victorian Political Thought (Palgrave, 2000), and Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He also edited Comte’s Early Political Writings for the Cambridge Texts in Political Thought series (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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