Auguste Comte /
Mike Gane.
- 1st ed.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- xv, 158 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to Comte's ideas -- The Comtean illusion -- The context and materials of sociology -- The intimations of social science and a new politics -- Comte's heretical report on knowledge -- But why did Comte need sociology? -- A sociological theory of modernity -- A second sociology -- Spiritual supra-state power, sociology and humanity -- Sociologists and the regime of the fetishes -- Comte's futures.