This book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of his thought, and showing that the micro-sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena.
This book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of his thought, and showing that the micro-sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena.
Sergio Tonkonoff is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and Senior Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault: The Infinitesimal Revolution.
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Contents INTRODUCTION Hypothesis about an oblivion and remembrance plan Where to locate Tarde's work? Three classical readings and a (neo) baroque one Multitudes in heaven and Earth The problem of the social and its pure sociology CHAPTER 1 Infinite and social theory Infinitesimals or differentials The labyrinth of the continuum Leibniz's universe The composition of the infinite Towards an infinitist social theory Micro-mega CHAPTER 2 Individual, Society and Social Field From the society to individuals From points to lines The social as skein, the individual as wool ball Beliefs and desires as infinitesimal social forces Infinitesimal sociology CHAPTER 3 The social as contagion, creation and fight Social hypnosis (not everything is wakefulness with eyes wide open) Contagion lines and social epidemics Opposition, conflict, struggle The social as a field of struggles From doubt to war Invention as social relation (and as engine of History) Adaptation: difference and integration Contingency and necessity / virtuality and actuality Great and small / chance and reason CHAPTER 4 Sociology of flows and ensembles The logic of social contagion Social logic and persuasive syllogisms Non-logic laws of imitation The world within the home and vice versa Social ensembles or systems Social intelligence and general will A science of intensive communication CHAPTER 5 The Continuity of the multitudes The Crowd The multitude as paradigm and laboratory The individual, the crowd and its leaders The corporation The public, the mass-media Evolution and metamorphosis APPENDIX Cartographical note Tarde in Paris Tarde in North-America Back to France ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Contents INTRODUCTION Hypothesis about an oblivion and remembrance plan Where to locate Tarde's work? Three classical readings and a (neo) baroque one Multitudes in heaven and Earth The problem of the social and its pure sociology CHAPTER 1 Infinite and social theory Infinitesimals or differentials The labyrinth of the continuum Leibniz's universe The composition of the infinite Towards an infinitist social theory Micro-mega CHAPTER 2 Individual, Society and Social Field From the society to individuals From points to lines The social as skein, the individual as wool ball Beliefs and desires as infinitesimal social forces Infinitesimal sociology CHAPTER 3 The social as contagion, creation and fight Social hypnosis (not everything is wakefulness with eyes wide open) Contagion lines and social epidemics Opposition, conflict, struggle The social as a field of struggles From doubt to war Invention as social relation (and as engine of History) Adaptation: difference and integration Contingency and necessity / virtuality and actuality Great and small / chance and reason CHAPTER 4 Sociology of flows and ensembles The logic of social contagion Social logic and persuasive syllogisms Non-logic laws of imitation The world within the home and vice versa Social ensembles or systems Social intelligence and general will A science of intensive communication CHAPTER 5 The Continuity of the multitudes The Crowd The multitude as paradigm and laboratory The individual, the crowd and its leaders The corporation The public, the mass-media Evolution and metamorphosis APPENDIX Cartographical note Tarde in Paris Tarde in North-America Back to France ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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