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

Wernick, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0521023629 / ISBN 13: 9780521023627

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: The Post-theistic Program of French Social Theory
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521023629
• ISBN-13: 9780521023627
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

This 2001 book is a critique of Comte's concept of religion and its place in his thinking on politics, sociology and philosophy of science.

Über die Autorin bzw. den 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).