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  1. Auguste Comte’s Concept of Systematic Obsolescence, by Which All Truly Unarguable Views Must Spontaneously Fade Away.Jan Maršálek - 2022 - Philosophia Scientiae:111-131.
    The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction” (and of obsolescence), to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate the understanding of this Comtian metaphysical state as both a progressive and self-destructive transformation of “theology”, using an example drawn from the history of astronomy (Longomontanus). The broader relevance of this conception is then assessed in the field of social philosophy, so that (...)
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  • Towards a reflexive intelligence of emerging sociology in France around 1900.Martin Strauss - 2021 - Revue de Synthèse 142 (3-4):516-579.
    Recent years have seen a proliferation of publications reconsidering the emergence of sociology in France. The present review discusses and compares three of these works: S. Mosbah-Natanson’s bibliometric study on the fashion of sociology around 1900 (2017a); Th. Hirsch’s history of the idea of social time from the Durkheimians to Les Annales (2016a); and M. Joly’s enquiry into a purported sociological revolution in France and Germany at around the same time (2017a). Pushing respectively for a sociological, a historical and an (...)
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  • Auguste Comte’s Concept of Systematic Obsolescence, by Which All Truly Unarguable Views Must Spontaneously Fade Away.Jan Maršálek - 2022 - Philosophia Scientiae 26:111-131.
    The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction”, to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate the understanding of this Comtian metaphysical state as both a progressive and self-destructive transformation of “theology”, using an example drawn from the history of astronomy. The broader relevance of this conception is then assessed in the field of social philosophy, so that the realm of natural (...)
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