How to interpret Auguste Comte?. Michel Bourdeau, Mary Pickering, and Warren Schmaus (eds), Love, Order, and Progress: The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, 416 pages.

This collective volume, the outcome of a conference of the International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), is a timely and ambitious book on Auguste Comte. Presented as an “in-depth overview of the entirety of Comte’s thought” (p. xi), it simultaneously aspires to being the “most comprehensive English-language overview” as it is stated on the cover. The editors give two reasons for their enterprise. The “political turn” in the philosophy of science would make Comte hi...