The essential Comte
Subtitle: selected from Cours de philosophie positive.
By: Edited and with an introduction by Stanislav Andreski. Translated and annotated by Margaret Clarke.
Contributors: Andreski, Stanislav, ed.
Publisher: Croom Helm; Barnes & Noble
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Positivism
Description: Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 February 1798 ? 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.