A General View Of Positivism
A General View Of Positivism
The Catechism of Positive Religion
This English edition of The Catechism of Positive Religion was published in 1891, thirty-four years after the death of Comte, the French philosopher of science and politics and founder of positivism, whose work was widely read in the later ninetee...
A General View of Positivism
In A General View of Positivism French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) gives an overview of his social philosophy known as Positivism. Comte, credited with coining the term 'sociology' and one of the first to argue for it as a science, is co...
Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
An incisive reassessment of eighteen classic human virtues--including mercy, justice, fidelity, courage, compassion, humility, and simplicity--draws on the timeless wisdom of philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Simone Weil to explain how such v...
Maldoror And The Complete Works
Andre Breton wrote that MALDOROR is the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.' First published in 1869, MALDOROR is the work of a mysterious genius about whom little is known aside from his birth in Uruguay, 18...
Little Book Of Philosophy
In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and sh...
Short Treatise On Great Virtues
Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it appropriate and virtuous for us to behave, both to ...
Maldoror
Lautréamonts (Isidore Ducasse) postuma berömmelse vilar främst på "Maldorors sånger", ett grymt och hallucinatoriskt mästerverk från 1869 där kolsvart galghumor blandas med skräcksyner och isande tankeklarhet. Romanen sände chockvågor ge...
