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Auguste Comte was a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, but his work and voluminous oeuvre largely ignored, even in France, for most of the twentieth century. In the field of sociology, the science he claimed to have invented and the cornerstone of his positive philosophy, Comte became regarded more as an eccentric precursor to Durkheim than a real founder of the discipline, or even a significant contributor to its stock of ideas. Recently, however, Comte's life and writings have begun to be searchingly re-examined together with the wider religious, social and...