Auguste Comte: Select Bibliography


Baker, Keith Michael. “Closing the French Revolution: Saint-Simon and Comte” in The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, ed. François Furet and Mona Ozouf (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989), vol. 3, 323-39.

Caird, Edward.  The social philosophy and religion of Comte (New York: Macmillan, 1893)

Cashdollar, Charles D.  “Auguste Comte and the American Reformed Theologians” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 39, no. 1 (1978): 61-79 [Available online through JSTOR]

Charlton, D. G. Secular Religions in France, 1815-1870 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1963)

Gane, Mike. Auguste Comte (London, New York: Routledge, 2006)

Hesse, David Maria.  George Eliot and Auguste Comte: the influence of Comtean philosophy on the novels of George Eliot (New York: P. Lang, 1996)

Iggers, George. The Cult of Authority: the political philosophy of the Saint-Simonians: a chapter in the intellectual history of totalitarianism (The Hague, 1958)

Mill, John Stuart.  The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1887)

Pickering, Mary.  “Angels and Demons in the Moral Vision of Auguste Comte” Journal of Women's History, vol. 8, no. 2 (1996): 10-40 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Pickering, Mary.  “Auguste Comte and the Saint-Simonians” French Historical Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (1993): 211-237 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Pickering, Mary.  Auguste Comte: an intellectual biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Radford, Thomas.  Auguste Comte and the “religion of humanity” (London: Religious Tract Society, 1887)

Sarton, George.  “Auguste Comte, Historian of Science” Osiris, vol. 10, no. 1 (1955): 328-357 [Available online through JSTOR]

Simon, Walter Michael.  European positivism in the nineteenth century, an essay in intellectual history (Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 1963)

Simon, Walter Michael. “Comte's orthodox disciples: The Rise and Fall of a Cenacle.” French Historical Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 (1965): 42-63 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Vernon, R.  “Auguste Comte and the withering-away of the state.” Journal of the History of Ideas,, vol. 45, no. 4 (1984): 549-66 [Available online through JSTOR]

Wernick, Andrew.  “From Comte to Baudrillard: Socio-Theology after the End of the Social.” Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 17, no. 6 (2000): 55-75 [Available online through SAGE Publications]