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Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote?

Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote?

| May 1, 2016 | 0 responses

Auguste Comte, the French philosopher who, amongst other things, coined the term “sociology”, had a large mirror above his writing desk, so he could pause to admire himself as he wrote. There is perhaps no better symbolic image of academic vanity than Comte’s mirror. When I discovered this and shared it on Twitter, I received […] … learn more→

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