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- Fills a gap in social sciences and humanities literature, highlighting the existence of close ties between the social theories of Gabriel Tarde, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault
- Examines the ways in which these three authors provide novel concepts for understanding social life
- Re-constructs and articulates those concepts in a more general approach called the paradigm of infinitesimal difference
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology (PSRS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Conicet-Argentina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina
Sergio Tonkonoff
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault
Book Subtitle: The Infinitesimal Revolution
Authors: Sergio Tonkonoff
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55149-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55148-7Published: 01 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85580-6Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55149-4Published: 20 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4110
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4129
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 154
Topics: Sociological Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Ontology, Epistemology