Comte After Positivism

by Robert C. Scharff

Book Overview

This 1996 book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. 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. The aim of the first part of the book is to rescue Comte from the influential misinterpretation of his work by John Stuart Mill. The second part argues that this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893038
• ISBN13: 9780521893039
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"