Auguste Comte

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Title

Auguste Comte

Rights

“Half-length portrait of Auguste Comte, seated, known as the "Dutch portrait" (Portrait hollandais), produced after a daguerreotype of Comte taken in 1849” by Johan Hendrik Hoffmeister is licensed under the Public Domain.

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Birth Date

1798

Birthplace

France

Death Date

1857

Bibliography

Comte, A. (1975). Auguste Comte and positivism: The essential writings. Transaction Publishers.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351315289

Comte, A. (1865). Chapter III: The Action of Positivism Upon the Working Classes. In A General View of Positivism, translated by J. H. Bridges, 134-217. Traubner & Co.

Comte, A. (1858). The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte. Blanchard.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701467

Secondary Text

Bourdeau, M., Pickering, M., & Schmaus, W. (Eds.). (2018). Love, Order, and Progress: The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte. University of Pittsburgh Press. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11wk0b

Wernick, A. (2017). The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte. Anthem Press.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pv88sj

Arni, C., & Müller, C. (2004). More sociological than the sociologists? Undisciplined and undisciplinary thinking about society and modernity in the nineteenth century. Engendering the social: Feminist encounters with sociological theory, 71-97.

Pickering, M. (1997). "A New Look at Auguste Comte." In Reclaiming the Sociological Classics, edited by Charles Camic. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Extra Resources

School of Life - August Comte. (2016, May 20). Youtube. Accessed August 21, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVamhT4Q3s

August Comte. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed August 21, 2022.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/
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Citation

“Auguste Comte,” Mapping Social Theory and Sociology, accessed November 5, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/mapping-social-theory-and-sociology/items/show/350.

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