Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity
Subtitle: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780521023627
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; Social Science; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Sociology - General; Comte, Auguste, --1798-1857--Religion; Comte, Auguste,--1798-1857--Religion; Philosophy / Modern; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Sociology - General
First sentence: At the heart of Auguste Comte's program for resolving the 'crisis' of (early) industrial society - and explicitly so with the publication, in 1851, of Systeme de politique positive ou Traite de sociologie - was a project for 'positivising' religion by instituting (as its subtitle announced) la religion de l'Humanite.