Author : Stanislav Andreski
Release : 2015
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 651/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory) by : Stanislav Andreski
Download or read book The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory) written by Stanislav Andreski. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume Cours de Philosophie Positive of which this present book is a selective abridgement. Comte, as this selection shows, was a methodological visionary. He was an eminently successful terminological innovator and to him we owe not only 'sociology' and 'positivism' but also 'biology' and 'altruism'. Professor Andreski, in his lucid introduction, assesses Comte's place under six headings, as scientist, philosopher, sociological theorist, sociological historian, reformer and methodologist. But this selection from Comte's works will be most welcomed because it provides a modern English translation of the main body of his thought.
