Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate the first volume of Comte’s Cours de philosophie positive from the first volume of Marx’s Capital.
Estimate on a scale from 10 years (10) to 90 years (90).
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- Both dates are given in this lesson; subtract one from the other.
- The Cours begins in 1830 and Capital volume one appears in 1867.
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37 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
About 37 years. Less than four decades separate the two great systematising projects of nineteenth-century social thought, and they overlap: Comte was still alive and publishing when Marx was writing in the British Museum. They are contemporaries, not successive generations.
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