The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
$140.12
- Paperback
524 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2009
Summary
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte is a condensed English version of the French philosopher’s controversial work, freely translated by Harriet Martineau and published in two volumes in 1853. Martineau’s abridged and more easily digestible version of Comte’s work was intended to be readily accessible to a wide general readership, particularly those she felt to be morally and intellectually adrift, and Comte’s philosophy indeed attracted a significant following in Britain in the later nin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108001199 |
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| ISBN-10: | 110800119X |
| Author: | Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 524 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 660g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion |
About The Author
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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