From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault

The Infinitesimal Revolution
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-85580-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2305 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology

This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated in the infinite social multiplicity-invention-imitation-opposition-open system. Guided by infinitist ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimal difference, this paradigm offers a micro-socio-logic capable of producing new ways of understanding social life and its vicissitudes. In the field of social theory, this can be called the infinitesimal revolution.

 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tonkonoff, Sergio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Tarde and the Infinitesimal Sociology.- 2. Social Change: Inventions, Oppositions, Individuals, and Crowds.- 3. Microphysics and Microsociology: Foucault as Reader of Tarde.- 4. Contagion, Struggle, and Creation: the Heritage of Tarde in Deleuze´s Social Theory.- 5. Towards a New Relational Paradigm in Social Theory.

Über Autor(innen)

Sergio Tonkonoff is Researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. He teaches contemporary sociological theory at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.