Cover -- Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity The Post-Theistic Program of French Social Theory -- Title -- Copyright -- In memory of my father, Abram Joseph Wernick -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction: rethinking Comte -- The project of Positive Religion -- Comte, Nietzsche, Marx -- Comte and the canon -- Order of exposition -- 2 The system and its logic (1): from positive philosophy to social science -- The two Comtes -- Positive philosophy and social science -- Positivity from Bacon to Comte -- Science and truth -- Science and non-science -- Science and practice -- 3 The system and its logic (2): from sociology to the subjective synthesis -- Sociology and its object -- The transcendence of the social -- The subjective synthesis -- The logic of the system -- 4 Religion and the crisis of industrialism -- The troubles of industrialism -- The question of religion -- The subjective dimension -- Ego and solidarity -- Continuity and death -- 5 Love and the social body -- Love and the social tie -- Love and the psyche -- Love and the other -- 6 The path to perfection -- The question of violence -- Humanity and Nature -- Systematic fetishism and I' amour universel -- 7 Humanity as 'le vrai Grand-Être' -- Faith after 'God' -- The meaning(s) of 'I'Humanité' -- The Collective subject -- The divine status of Humanity -- From religion to politics -- Sociolatry and the death of the social -- 8 Socio-theology after Comte -- The second death of God -- Althusser: Humanism without Humanity -- Baudrillard: the end of the social -- Nancy: community without communion -- Politics, transcendence and the social -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.