Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvSergio Tonkonoff,Argentina) Tonkonoff, Sergio (University of Buenos Aires

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This book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of both his general theoretical approach and many of his specific analyses. Showing that Tarde elaborates a comprehension of the social that was received with difficulty in his time but is increasingly akin to ours, it demonstrates that the infinitesimal sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena. With attention to social networks, public opinion, innovation, diffusion, virality and virtuality—all of which were topics addressed by Tarde himself—the author clarifies and elaborates upon Tarde’s central theses on the multiple, differential, infinitesimal and infinite nature of both the social and the subjective. An examination of the importance of a figure whose work looked ahead to our own age, Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde will appeal to scholars and students of social sciences and social theory with interests in contemporary social thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-13
Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt240 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReintroducing...
Antal sidor142
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032053974

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ContentsINTRODUCTION | Hypothesis about an oblivion and remembrance planWhere to locate Tarde’s work?Three classical readings and a (neo) baroque oneMultitudes in heaven and EarthThe problem of the social and its pure sociologyCHAPTER 1 | Infinite and social theoryInfinitesimals or differentialsThe labyrinth of the continuumLeibniz’s universeThe composition of the infiniteTowards an infinitist social theoryMicro-megaCHAPTER 2 | Individual, Society and Social Field From the society to individualsFrom points to linesThe social as skein, the individual as wool ballBeliefs and desires as infinitesimal social forcesInfinitesimal sociologyCHAPTER 3 | The social as contagion, creation and fightSocial hypnosis (not everything is wakefulness with eyes wide open)Contagion lines and social epidemicsOpposition, conflict, struggleThe social as a field of strugglesFrom doubt to warInvention as social relation (and as engine of History)Adaptation: difference and integrationContingency and necessity / virtuality and actualityGreat and small / chance and reasonCHAPTER 4 | Sociology of flows and ensemblesThe logic of social contagionSocial logic and persuasive syllogismsNon-logic laws of imitationThe world within the home and vice versaSocial ensembles or systemsSocial intelligence and general willA science of intensive communicationCHAPTER 5 | The Continuity of the multitudesThe CrowdThe multitude as paradigm and laboratoryThe individual, the crowd and its leadersThe corporationThe public, the mass-mediaEvolution and metamorphosisAPPENDIX | Cartographical noteTarde in ParisTarde in North-AmericaBack to FranceACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX