Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity Hardback: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory - Hardcover

Wernick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521662729 ISBN 13: 9780521662727

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This 2001 book provides the first in-depth critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science. Wernick relates Comte to Marx and Nietzsche and examines key features of modern and postmodern French social theory, tracing the inherent flaws of Comte's system.

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'Mr Wernick's book on August Comte is brilliant. ... (He) succeeds admirably in placing Comte's religion in the context of his time and in the history of social theory in France. ... This book will give any reader pause to reflect on the distinctiveness of French social theory, the problem of defining a community, and the relationship between politics and religion in both its theistic and post-theistic forms.' Mary Pickering, San Jose State University, California

Biografía del autor:

Andrew Wernick is Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics, and Director of the Graduate Program in Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture. His publications include Promotional Culture (1991), Shadow of Spirit: Religion and Postmodernism (with P Berry, 1993) and Images of Ageing (with M Featherstone, 1994).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521662729
• ISBN 13: 9780521662727
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290