Complex sentence: Karl Marx died before the major contributions of Durkheim but nonetheless fiercely rejected Comtean sociological positivism (despite establishing his own historical materialist'science of society'), whilst Edmund Husserl negated positivism through the rubric of phenomenology.
Split into simpler sentences: Karl Marx died before the major contributions of Durkheim but nonetheless fiercely rejected Comtean sociological positivism (despite establishing his own historical materialist'science of society'). Whilst Edmund Husserl negated positivism through the rubric of phenomenology.