The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

New York: Peter Eckler, n.d. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. 838pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Reprint of the first American edition published in 1858 by Calvin Blanchard. Strongly influenced by the Utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte developed the positive philosophy in an attempt to remedy the social malaise of the French revolution, calling

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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