Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire

by Matthew Wilson and Matthew Wilson

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This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ the philosopher's new science of sociology to dismantle the British Empire. With an aim to realise in its place Comte's global vision of utopian socialist republican city-states,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3030834409

ISBN13:9783030834401

Release Date:October 2022

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:357 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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