Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory)

<p>Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and on the whole this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume <i>Cours de Philosophie Positive</i> of which this present book is a selective abridgement. Comte as this selection shows was a methodological visionary. He was an eminently successful terminological innovator and to him we owe not only 'sociology' and 'positivism' but also 'biology' and 'altruism'. Professor Andreski in his lucid introduction assesses Comte's place under six headings as scientist philosopher sociological theorist sociological historian reformer and methodologist. But this selection from Comte's works will be most welcomed because it provides a modern English translation of the main body of his thought.</p>