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Matthew Wilson

Moralising Space

The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920

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Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, a controversial figure who introduced the modern science of sociology and the republican Religion of Humanity. Moralising Space examines how from the 1850s Comte's British followers practised this science and religion with the aim to create a global network of 500 utopian city-states. Curiously the British Positivists' work has never been the focus of a full-length study on modern sociology and town planning. In this intellectual history, Matthew Wi… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-315-44911-1
  • EAN: 9781315449111
  • Produktnummer: 31315869
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 244 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 9'250 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 21 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen

Über den Autor


Matthew Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ball State University, USA. He earned a Master of Arts with distinction from the Architectural Association and a PhD in History from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. As an intellectual historian Wilson's research focuses on the political, philosophical and epistemological movements of spatial design.

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