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Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory

Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory

by Andrew Wernick
Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory
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ISBN-10:
0521662729
ISBN-13:
9780521662727
Pub. Date:
04/30/2001
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521662729
ISBN-13:
9780521662727
Pub. Date:
04/30/2001
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory

Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory

by Andrew Wernick

Overview

This book offers an exciting reinterpretation of Auguste Comte, the founder of French sociology. Andrew Wernick provides the first in-depth critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science. He places Comte's ideas within the context of post-1789 French political and intellectual history, and of modern philosophy, especially postmodernism. Wernick relates Comte to Marx and Nietzsche as seminal figures of modernity and examines key features of modern and postmodern French social theory, tracing the inherent flaws and disintegration of Comte's system.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521662727
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2001
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile: 1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Andrew Wernick is Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics, and Director of the Graduate Program in Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture. His publications include Promotional Culture (1991), Shadow of Spirit: Religion and Postmodernism (with P Berry, 1993) and Images of Ageing (with M Featherstone, 1994).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: rethinking Comte; 2. The system and its logic (1): from positive philosophy to social science; 3. The system and its logic (2): from sociology to the subjective synthesis; 4. Religion and the crisis of industrialism; 5. Love and the social body; 6. The path to perfection; 7. Humanity as 'le vrai grand-être'; 8. Socio-theology after Comte; References; Index.

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'Mr Wernick's book on August Comte is brilliant. ... (He) succeeds admirably in placing Comte's religion in the context of his time and in the history of social theory in France. … This book will give any reader pause to reflect on the distinctiveness of French social theory, the problem of defining a community, and the relationship between politics and religion in both its theistic and post-theistic forms.' Mary Pickering, San Jose State University, California

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