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Record Nr.

UNINA9910295748803321

Autore

Tonkonoff Sergio

Titolo

From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault : The Infinitesimal Revolution / / by Sergio Tonkonoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319551494

3319551493

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology, , 2946-4129

Disciplina

301.092

Soggetti

Sociology

Social structure

Equality

Social sciences - Philosophy

Ontology

Knowledge, Theory of

Sociological Theory

Social Structure

Social Theory

Epistemology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.