Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings

by Lenzer,Gertrud

• ISBN13: 9780765804129
• ISBN10: 0765804123
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-12-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction edition	xi	(14)
Acknowledgements	xxv	(2)
Foreword	xxvii	(4)
Introduction: Auguste Comte and Modern Positicvism	xxxi
PART I. EARLY WRITINGS (1819-1828)	3	(68)
from Preface to the Early Writings (1854)	3	(3)
Separation of Opinions from Aspiration (1819)	6	(3)
from Plan of the Scientific Operations Necessary for Reorganizing Society (1822)	9	(62)
PART II. THE FIRST SYSTEM Cours de Philosophie Positive (1830-1842)	71	(238)
Introduction	71	(31)
Chapter 1: Account of the Aim of this Work; View of the Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy	71	(16)
Chapter 2: View of the Hierarchy of the Positive Sciences	87	(15)
Book I. Mathematics from	102	(28)
Chapter 1: Mathematics, Abstract and Concrete	102	(11)
Chapter 2: General View of Mathematical Analysis	113	(3)
Chapter 3: General View of Geometry	116	(2)
Chapter 4: Rational Mechanics	118	(12)
Book II. Astronomy from	130	(8)
Chapter 1: General View of Astronomy	130	(7)
Chapter 2: Sidereal Astronomy and Cosmogony	137	(1)
Book III. Physics from Chapter 1: General View of physics	138	(14)
Book IV. Chemistry from Chapter 1: General View of Chemistry	152	(11)
Book V. Biology from	163	(32)
Chapter 1: General view of Biology	163	(19)
Chapter 2: Intellectual and Moral, or Cerebral, Functions	182	(13)
Book VI. Social Physics from	195	(114)
Chapter 1: Necessity and Opportuneness of This New Sciences	195	(23)
Chapter 3: Characteristics of the Positive Method in its Application to Social Phenomena	218	(35)
Chapter 4: Relation of Sociology to the Other Departments of Positive Philosophy	253	(10)
Chapter 5: Social Statics, or Theory of the Spontaneous Order of Human Society	263	(16)
Chapter 6: Social Dynamics, or Theory of the Natural Progress of Human Society	263	(16)
Chapter 15: Estimate of the Final Action of the Positive philosophy	298	(11)
PART III. THE SECOND SYSTEM Systeme de politique positive(1851-1854)	309	(152)
from Preface	309	(8)
Volume I. A General View of Positivism	317	(73)
from Introductory Remarks	317	(3)
Chapter 1: The intellectual Character of Positivism	320	(14)
Chapter 2: The Social Aspect of Positivism, as shown by its Connection with the General Revolutionary Movement of Western Europe	334	(14)
Chapter 3: The Action of Positivism upon the Working Classes	348	(24)
Chapter 4: The Influences of Positivism upon Women	372	(9)
Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Religion of Humanity	381	(9)
Volume II. Social Statics, or the Abstract Theory of Human Order	390	(52)
from General Introduction	390	(3)
Chapter 1: The General Theory of Religion, or the Positive Theory of Human Unity	393	(6)
Chapter 2: Sociological Inquiry into the Problem of Human Life; (and Therein) the Positive Theory of Material property	399	(14)
Chapter 3: The Positive Theory of the Family	413	(2)
Chapter 4: The Positive Theory of Human Language	415	(5)
Chapter 5: The Positive Theory of the Social Organism Positive Theory of Social Forces	420	(1)
Positive Theory of social Forces	420	(9)
Theory of social Organization	429	(8)
Chapter 7: The Positive Theory of the General Limits of Variation in the Order of Human Society	437	(5)
Volume IV. Theory of the Future of Man	442	(19)
from General Introduction	442	(6)
Chapter 1: The Fundamental Theory of the Great Being-Whence a Conspectus of the Religion of the Race and of its Existence in the Normal State	448	(13)
PART IV. THE WORSHIP systeme de politique Positive (1851-1854) from	461	(20)
Chapter 2: General View of the Affective Life, or the Definitive Systematization of the Positive System of Worship	461	(4)
Conspectus of Sociolatry, or social Worship	465	(1)
Chapter 5: The Philosophical Estimate of the Present, by Virture of the Combination of the Future with the past-Whence a Genaral View of the Last Phase of the Transition	466	(6)
Positivist Calendar, or Concrete View of the Preparatory Period of Man's History	472	(5)
Positivist Library in the Nineteenth Century	477	(4)
Conclusion of the Whole Work of the System of Positive Policy	481	(12)
Postscript-Mind-forged Manacles: Auguste Comte and the Future	493	(28)
Selected Bibliography	521	(8)
More Recent Bibliographical Sources	529	(4)
Index	533