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Gabriel Tarde - The Future of the Artificial (Hardcover)
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Gabriel Tarde - The Future of the Artificial (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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This book presents the core ideas of early sociologist Gabriel
Tarde and suggests a new pathway for sociology based on his
foundational work. Rejecting anthropocentrism, Tarde highlights the
contrast between the natural and the artificial, uniquely
emphasizing the positive significance of the artificial in an age
in which people have come to distrust it profoundly. Recovering
Tarde's theory today in the context of contemporary as well as
classical scholarship and recognizing how it fits with such
phenomena as quantum physics and digital media, this book develops
the concept of the cosmological imagination as the context for a
critical Tardian analysis of artifice that can bring together what
we know about our contemporary future-oriented global societies.
How we know the universe, our place in it, the place of other
animals and objects in it, our global socialities, our human claims
of power and privilege within it, are pointed questions Tarde asks
as he wonders whether a future temporality conducive to constant
artifice has become our normal human way of life. Considering our
ambivalence about modern products and modernity in general, our
thinking about the future, and our tendency to forget what nature
used to signify in its presentation of problems beyond our control,
such as illnesses and epidemics, Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the
Artificial demonstrates the reasons for which we need to return to
Tarde's work to rediscover its relevance for public debate as we
seek to think through the new era and its societies in which
culture and nature are no longer distinct. This book will appeal to
scholars of social and political theory with interests in our
digital age, new sociologies of materials and objects,
neomonadology, and the thought of Gabriel Tarde.
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