Abstract
Ikutarii Shimizu graduated Tokyo Imperial University writing a masterpiece “Three Stages Law of Auguste Comte”, and 57 years after, he published a little book Auguste Comte again to escape from sociologist. There exists a conspicuous contrast between the two images of A. Comte. This great amplitude of vibration in the direction of thought is a recurrent pattern peculiar to his life course. Between the two contrasting images of Comte lies all of his achievement in the history of sociology and the theoretical analysis of mass society.
In this paper I suggest to show some characteristic elements-failures and limitations of his mass society theory, that is in fact the very substance of his sociology itself, which stem from two factors in his personality formation, (1) being an extraordinary peculiarity of his upgrowing process and (2) a striking immaturity of his view on the locality-based life styles or the country-bred attitude patterns.
His anticipated concept of mass society happened to be gradually realised in Japan which also meant realization of his anticipated nihilism. He could not help transforming himself from a cosmopolitan democrat to a kind of patriotic nationalist, intending to overcome the unexpected situation of the anomic mass society.
