Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Comte’s Ideas 2. The Comtean Illusion 3. The Context and Materials of Sociology 4. The Intimations of Social Science and a New Politics 5. Comte’s Heretical Report on Knowledge 6. But Why did Comte Need Sociology? 7. A Sociological Theory of Modernity 8. A Second Sociology 9. Spiritual Supra-State Power, Sociology and Humanity 10. Sociologists and the Regime of the Fetishes 11. Comte’s Futures