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Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-153) and index
Description:
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.