Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t] ⓘ; 19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857)[1] was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.[2] Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.[3][4]
Auguste Comte
(1798-01-19)19 January 1798
5 September 1857(1857-09-05) (aged 59)
Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon,[1] Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution, which he believed indicated imminent transition to a new form of society. He sought to establish a new social doctrine based on science, which he labelled positivism. He had a major impact on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and George Eliot.[5] His concept of Sociologie and social evolutionism set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists such as Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research.
Comte's social theories culminated in his "Religion of Humanity",[1] which presaged the development of non-theistic religious humanist and secular humanist organisations in the 19th century. He may also have coined the word altruisme (altruism).[6]
A general view of positivism [Discours sur l’ensemble du positivisme 1848] London, 1856
Internet Archive
Bridges, J.H. (tr.); A General View of Positivism; Trubner and Co., 1865 (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00064-2)
Cambridge University Press
Congreve, R. (tr.); The Catechism of Positive Religion; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1891 (reissued by , 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00087-1)
Cambridge University Press
with Gertrud Lenzer. Auguste Comte and Positivism the Essential Writings. Transaction Publishers, 1998.
(tr.); The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte; 2 volumes; Chapman, 1853 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00118-2) (but note that Cambridge University Press said "Martineau's abridged and more easily digestible version of Comte's work was intended to be readily accessible to a wide general readership, particularly those she felt to be morally and intellectually adrift", so this is not really Comte's own writings)
Martineau, H.
Jones, H.S. (ed.); Comte: Early Political Writings; , 1998; ISBN 978-0-521-46923-4
Cambridge University Press
System of Positive Polity; various publishers
, Tome II; Bachelier, Paris, 1835, The Project Gutenberg eBook of Cours de philosophie positive (2/6), par Auguste Comte; scans of the six volumes are at Projet Gallica
Cours de Philosophie Positive
with Ferré Frederick. Introduction to Positive Philosophy. Hackett Pub. Co., 1988.
with H. S. Jones. Early Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Auguste Comte, Volume 1: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge University Press (1993), Paperback, 2006.
Mary Pickering
Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte, Volume 2: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2009a.
Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte, Volume 3: An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2009b.
La vie d'Auguste Comte, Gallimard, 1931 lah
Henri Gouhier
Réflexions sur la pensée comtienne, Félix Alcan, 1932
Jean Delvolvé
Auguste Comte and Positivism, Trübner, 1865
John Stuart Mill
Comte, Les Belles Lettres, 2000, réédition 2005
Laurent Fedi
Laurent Fedi, L'organicisme de Comte, in Auguste Comte aujourd'hui, M. Bourdeau, J.-F. Braunstein, A. Petit (dir), Kimé, 2003, pp. 111–132
Laurent Fedi, Auguste Comte, la disjonction de l'idéologie et de l'État, Cahiers philosophiques, n°94, 2003, pp. 99–110
Laurent Fedi, Le monde clos contre l'univers infini : Auguste Comte et les enjeux humains de l'astronomie, La Mazarine, n°13, juin 2000, pp. 12–15
Laurent Fedi, La contestation du miracle grec chez Auguste Comte, in L'Antiquité grecque au XIXè siècle : un exemplum contesté ?, C. Avlami (dir.), L'Harmattan, 2000, pp. 157–192
Laurent Fedi, Auguste Comte et la technique, Revue d'histoire des sciences 53/2, 1999, pp. 265–293
Mike Gane, Auguste Comte, London, Routledge, 2006.
Henri Gouhier, La jeunesse d'Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme, tome 1 : sous le signe de la liberté, Vrin, 1932
Henri Gouhier, La jeunesse d'Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme, tome 2 : Saint-Simon jusqu'à la restauration, Vrin
Henri Gouhier, La jeunesse d'Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme, tome 3 : Auguste Comte et Saint-Simon, Vrin, 1941
Henri Gouhier, Oeuvres choisies avec introduction et notes, Aubier, 1941
« Histoire des religions et histoire des sciences dans la théorie du fétichisme chez Auguste Comte », Études d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences, Vrin, 1968
Georges Canguilhem
ed., Comte: Early Political Writings, Cambridge University Press, 1998
H.S. Jones
Auguste Comte et la théorie sociale du positivisme, Seghers, 1972
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Auguste Comte, la science sociale, Gallimard, 1972
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Le projet anthropologique d'Auguste Comte, SEDES, 1980, réédition L'Harmattan, 1999
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
L'anthropologie positiviste d'Auguste Comte, Lib. Honoré Champion, 1980
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Entre le signe et l'histoire. L'anthropologie positiviste d'Auguste Comte, Klincksieck, 1982, réédition L'Harmattan, 1999
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Le positivisme, Coll."Que sais-je?", PUF, 1982
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Le concept de science positive. Ses tenants et ses aboutissants dans les structures anthropologiques du positivisme, Méridiens Klincksieck, 1983
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Le positivisme d'Auguste Comte, L'Harmattan, 2006
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Auguste Comte et la science politique, in Auguste Comte, Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiserla société, L'Harmattan, 2001
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Auguste Comte et l'histoire générale, in Auguste Comte, Sommaire appréciation de l'ensemble du passé moderne, L'Harmattan, 2006
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Auguste Comte et la science politique, L'Harmattan, 2007
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Le kaléidoscope épistémologique d'Auguste Comte. Sentiments Images Signes, L'Harmattan, 2007
Angèle Kremer-Marietti
Realino Marra, La proprietà in Auguste Comte. Dall'ordine fisico alla circolazione morale della ricchezza, in «Sociologia del diritto», XII-2, 1985, pp. 21–53
Comte. La philosophie et les sciences, PUF, 1989
Pierre Macherey
Thomas Meaney, The Religion of Science and Its High Priest, The New York Review of Books, 2012
The Religion of Science and Its High Priest
Jacques Muglioni, Auguste Comte: un philosophe pour notre temps, Kimé, Paris, 1995
Annie Petit, Le Système d'Auguste Comte. De la science à la religion par la philosophie, 2016, Vrin, Paris
Auguste Comte: Essential Writings (1975), New York Harper, Paperback, 1997
Gertrud Lenzer
Le positivisme est un culte des morts: Auguste Comte, Epel, 1999 (traduit en français en 2001) : l'étude la plus récente sur la vie d'Auguste Comte, la vision sans complaisance d'une psychanalyste de l'école de Lacan
Raquel Capurro
Auguste Comte, Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1855), translated by Harriet Martineau, Kessinger Publishing, Paperback, 2003; also available from the Archived 20 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine: Volume One Archived 29 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Volume Two Archived 31 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Volume Three Archived 30 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
McMaster Archive for the History of Economic Thought
(1823–1903): Autour d'un centenaire, in Revue des Sciences et des Techniques en perspective, 2ème série, vol. 8, n°2, 2004, Brepols Publishers, 2005
Pierre Laffitte
Auguste Comte, postérité épistémologique et ralliement des nations, L'Harmattan, 2005
Zeïneb Ben Saïd Cherni
Auguste Comte: die Macht der Zeichen, Carl Hanser, Munich, 2010
Wolf Lepenies
Oséias Faustino Valentim, O Brasil e o Positivismo, Publit, Rio de Janeiro, 2010. 978-85-7773-331-6.
ISBN
Notice sur l'oeuvre et sur la vie d'Auguste Comte, par le Dr Robinet, son médecin et l'un de ses treize exécuteurs testamentaires, Paris : au siège de la Société positiviste, 1891. 3e éd.
Jean-François Eugène Robinet
La philosophie positive: Auguste Comte et M. Pierre Laffitte, Paris : G. Baillière, [ca 1881].
Jean-François Eugène Robinet
Auguste Comte Sociology Theory Explained
Andrew Wernick, Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
. Sociocracy.
"Origins of Sociocracy"
Gane, Mike (2016). . Revue européenne des sciences sociales. 52 (2): 43–67. doi:10.4000/ress.3590.
"Journey to Isidore"
Gane, Mike (2006). . 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–13. ISBN 9780415385435.
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte: Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Review materials for studying Auguste Comte
J.H. Bridges, The Seven New Thoughts of the Positive Polity 1915
In Comte's last years, practicing his own religion.
Henri Gouhier, "Final Chapter – Life in the anticipation of the Grave", from The Life of Auguste Comte (1931).
Auguste Comte quotes
Positivist Church of Brazil
by Caspar J M Hewett
The Three Cs and the Notion of Progress: Copernicus, Condorcet, Comte
/ freely translated and selected by Harriet Martineau, Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection – downloadable version
The positive philosophy, Auguste Comte
from first lecture of Course of Positive Philosophy