Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity
Subtitle: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521662727
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Social theory; Positivism; History; Social Science; Philosophy; Sociology - General; Sociology; Religion; History & Surveys - Modern; Comte, Auguste,--1798-1857--Religion; Social Science / Sociology / General; Comte, Auguste,; 1798-1857; 19th century
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.