From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault

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From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault

The Infinitesimal Revolution

Social groups, communities and identities Sociology Social theory Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Author: Sergio Tonkonoff

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Collection: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 20th July 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 464 Kb

ISBN: 9783319551494


Overview

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.

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