This book provides translations of Auguste Comte's early writings, with scholarly apparatus placing Comte in his historical context.

Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his wri

Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on

This volume explores the life and works of Auguste Comte during the last and most controversial part of his career, the period from 1842 to 1857.

This book places Spencer's famous argument for political individualism in his The Man versus the State alongside his early The Proper Sphere of Government, out