| Comte After Positivism Contributor(s): Scharff, Robert C. (Author), Pippin, Robert B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521474884 ISBN-13: 9780521474887 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $100.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: This book provides the only detailed, systematic philosophical reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues for the provocative thesis that Comte's positivism actually has greater contemporary relevance now that no one wants to be a positivist. Providing lucid exposition and informed by considerable new scholarship on Comte's work, this book will be valuable to philosophers, especially philosophers of science and those interested in post-positivist developments in Anglo-American philosophy, to a wide range of intellectual historians, and to historians of science and psychology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 94044551 |
| Series: Modern European Philosophy (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.24" W x 9.25" (1.07 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had greater contemporary relevance than now. Providing a lucid exposition of Comte and informed by considerable new scholarship on his work, this book will be valuable to philosophers, especially philosophers of science, a wide range of intellectual historians, and to historians of science and psychology. |