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Descrivere il futuro

Scienza e utopia in Francia nell'età del positivismo
  • Claudio De Boni,

The volume reconstructs the utopian tensions present within positivism, generally projected towards imaginary descriptions of the future, starting from Comte's System of Positive Politics which describes an ideal society based on collaboration between different classes. The temptation to describe the future in terms of the realisation of perfection is common to many other authors close to positivism. However, the book points out how an "althist" approach could sometimes create a picture that isn’t very confident, but rather worried of its consequences on human qualities, of a world too based on technology and on the materialistic values of economic progress.

  • Keywords:
  • Storia,
  • Politica,
  • Filosofia,
  • Positivismo,
  • Scienza,
  • Francia,
  • Auguste Comte,
  • Open Access,
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Claudio De Boni

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4474-7419

Claudio De Boni is associate professor in History of Political Doctrines and History of Contemporary Political Thought at the Faculty of Political Sciences "Cesare Alfieri". Scholar of the political thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and especially of its utopian connotation, he has published extensive reviews on utopias in the Enlightenment period and during French Revolution, with particular reference to the figure of Condorcet. Another field of his study concerns the rise of social rights issue in the first half of the nineteenth century. Regarding French positivism, he has to his credit numerous essays on the political and social ideas of Auguste Comte and a volume on Emile Littrè.
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Book Title

Descrivere il futuro

Book Subtitle

Scienza e utopia in Francia nell'età del positivismo

Authors

Claudio De Boni

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Number of Pages

130

Publication Year

2003

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© 2003 Author(s)

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CC BY-ND 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/88-8453-098-9

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88-8453-099-7

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88-8453-098-9

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978-88-5518-746-6

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

Series E-ISSN

2704-5919

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