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.

The first volume of a two-volume intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology and positivism.

Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reass

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